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Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated October 30, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow through on a prompt to create a haiku about being in space: Blue marble below Data streams in […].

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