Philipp Schmid relays that Google runs Gemma 4 on a TPU in space
Philipp Schmid relayed Sundar Pichai's message, stating that Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite booted up a TPU in orbit, ran a prompt, and a complete response was received on Earth—a haiku. On that basis, he said Gemma 4 became the first LLM to run in space, but the original post did not name the model used.
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This relay presents the public progress of Google sending a TPU into orbit and completing a model inference, and can serve as an early reference for the idea of space computing power.
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View original postA ‘hello world’ milestone for Project Suncatcher 🚀 After launching our prototype satellite a few weeks ago, we’ve now successfully sent a command up to orbit, booted up the TPU, ran the prompt, and received our first complete response back on earth - a haiku! https://t.co/kOFmETUskm
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A ‘hello world’ milestone for Project Suncatcher 🚀 After launching our prototype satellite a few weeks ago, we’ve now successfully sent a command up to orbit, booted up the TPU, ran the prompt, and received our first complete response back on earth - a haiku! https://t.co/kOFmETUskm
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This incredible. Gemma 4 became the first LLM to run in space?