Google Just Got AI To Talk From Space — Project Suncatcher Scores First In-Orbit TPU Response After SpaceX Launch

• Google said it reached its “Hello World” milestone this week when it successfully received the first AI response from a data center-class TPU operating in orbit.
• During a ground-station pass, the team sent a prompt to an onboard Gemma 4 open model, asking it to generate a haiku about being in space.
• As the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway, Google received the response back on Earth.

Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Google has gotten artificial intelligence to talk from space for the first time, marking an early milestone in its ambitious Project Suncatcher effort to explore whether AI computing could eventually move beyond Earth.

The breakthrough came weeks after Google’s prototype satellite launched into orbit aboard a Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SPCX) rideshare mission. The satellite has now completed its initial commissioning work, including…