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Google launches test satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit under Project Suncatcher

Google has launched its first Project Suncatcher test satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit to determine whether its AI hardware can operate in space.

Google and MIT introduce Coco agent platform for hardware and ML model co-design

Researchers from Google and MIT have introduced Coco, an agent platform designed for TPU architects to co-design machine learning models and accelerators using relational database simulation sweeps and typed tools.

Google Cloud matches Ai2’s Olmo 3 7B run on Cloud TPUs

Ai2 says Google Cloud reran Olmo 3’s 7B pretraining and mid-training on Cloud TPUs and matched the original run on held-out evaluations.

Google to test whether TPUs can operate in space

Sundar Pichai says Project Suncatcher will fly a prototype satellite on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission, in partnership with Planet, to test whether Google’s TPUs can survive and operate in space.