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Google will launch its first AI chips into orbit next week
A Project Suncatcher prototype built with Planet will test whether Google’s TPUs survive launch, radiation and heat in space.
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Google will send its own AI chips into orbit for the first time next week, in the first flight test of Project Suncatcher. A prototype satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission.
Google built the satellite with Planet, the Earth-imaging company. The mission will measure how the chips cope with the stress of launch, the radiation of space and its extremes of heat and cold.
Suncatcher, announced last…
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