AI inference is moving into physical and autonomous systems, from a transformer commanding a space probe to synthetic data generation for defense, mining, aerospace and autonomous vehicles. Google's orbital TPU test points to a future where local AI runs in constrained, remote environments.
Google launches the MVP satellite on October 1, a fridge-sized test with four custom TPU accelerators and about one kilowatt of solar power. Part of Project Suncatcher, the mission validates the idea of orbital AI data centers, using a Planet Labs bu...
Hungarian startup DiffuseDrive generates synthetic data to train physical AI systems in defence, mining, aerospace and autonomous vehicles. Its platform identifies missing edge cases in datasets, produces them with control over object position and si...
AstroForge will give its next Autonomy-1 space probe a small transformer-based model responsible for onboard decisions. Local inference becomes unavoidable without connectivity and under severe physical constraints. The shift from deterministic softw...
