Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week

Google is getting acceptable to motorboat a outer with its AI processors to trial however good they execute successful space, arsenic reported earlier by The New York Times. The determination is part of Google's Project Suncatcher, the company's experimental inaugural that could yet enactment AI information centers into orbit.

The satellite, equipped with Google's Tensor Processing Units, volition motorboat aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket connected October 1st, allowing it to harness the powerfulness of the prima successful debased Earth orbit. As noted by Google, the extremity of the ngo is to measurement however good its TPUs "handle the carnal accent of spaceflight and the radiation and thermal extremes of space." …

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