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Google launches “Project Suncatcher” AI space center

Google has announced a new research initiative called "Project Suncatcher," which aims to build a large-scale AI infrastructure in space. The goal is to build a scalable computing platform for AI in space by equipping a fleet of solar-powered satellites with their own AI accelerator, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), and interconnecting them with a free-space optical link. The details of the announcement are summarized in the paper "Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design." "Space Power Generation" for AI: The Full Picture and Challenges AI is becoming a fundamental technology supporting social development, and its computing demands are expanding year by year. To address this, Google is exploring the possibility of performing large-scale AI calculations in space. The sun emits more than 100 trillion times the…