New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Google has successfully run an artificial intelligence (AI) model on a satellite in orbit and received its first complete response back on Earth, marking a key milestone in its Project Suncatcher initiative to explore the possibility of running AI computing infrastructure in space.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the development in a post on X, describing it as a "'hello world' milestone for Project Suncatcher". He said the team had sent a command to the satellite, booted up its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), run a prompt and received the response back on Earth.

"After launching our prototype satellite a few weeks ago, we've now successfully sent a command up to orbit, booted up the TPU, ran the prompt, and recei...