Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
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The newsletter reports that Google is preparing its Project Suncatcher to send Trillium TPUs into space on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission while continuing stress tests for g-forces and radiation. Its radiation testing found the TPUs can survive a total ionizing dose greater than what they would receive during a five-year space mission. As a result, AI training and inference compute could be shifted off-planet sooner, but practical issues like cooling in vacuum remain a key challenge.
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