Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry

And as the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway, the orbiting AI model responded over the downlink:

Blue marble below,

Data streams in silent grace,

Starlight feeds my core. ✨

Those roughly 20 tokens would cost about $0.000012 if generated through the Google Cloud API, based on Gemma 4 26B’s pricing of $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, excluding input costs.

Add in a satellite weighing perhaps 500 kg, based on the mass of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, and a retail launch price of around $7,000 per kg, and you have a very expensive haiku.

This is the most astronomically far from art as you can get.

  • SoyweiserEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    There is also the series where various old spacecraft become sentient, humanity becomes immortal and they all get really into football variants or something. A story spread over various sites and yt clips.