#space-based-ai

#space-based-ai

"Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you," CEO Elon Musk proclaimed yesterday following a restructuring that saw a stream of former executives exit the AI lab. This is an interesting recruitment strategy after the company's merger with Musk's rocket maker, SpaceX, and the combined company's anticipated IPO. You might think that xAI employees ought to be fascinated with achieving AGI, using deep learning models to disrupt traditional software companies, or simply bad wordplay like "Macrohard."

Google Research has unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research initiative exploring how solar powered satellite constellations equipped with Tensor Processing Units TPUs could one day enable large scale artificial intelligence computation in space. The project is part of an early stage study into scalable AI infrastructure that operates beyond Earth's surface, leveraging the continuous solar energy available in orbit. According to Google, satellites operating in sun synchronous orbits can collect solar power almost continuously, up to eight times more efficiently than ground based systems.