Google launched a prototype satellite into orbit loaded with its AI chips on Thursday as part of the first phase of a project to explore if space could be the best place for powering large-scale AI infrastructure.
The satellite, built by Planet Labs and launched on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare, is loaded with Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to see how they perform in space and deal with the physical stress of spaceflight, radiation and extreme temperature conditions.
