Google will launch its first AI chips into orbit next week

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by TNW at 24 Sept, 14:16 UTC

Google will send its own AI chips into orbit for the first time next week, in the first flight test of Project Suncatcher. A prototype satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Google built the satellite with Planet, the…