Gemma 4 reportedly running in a space data center under Google's Project Suncatcher
Saboo_Shubham_ · x · 2026-11-01
A viral post claims Google's Gemma 4 model is now actually running at a data center in space, crediting the Project Suncatcher team with the milestone.
- The claim comes from a third-party account and is not officially confirmed by Google
- If true, it would mark a first real deployment of inference compute on an orbital data center
- Project Suncatcher is Google's initiative exploring space-based data centers powered by solar energy
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