SkyNet Goes Real-Time: China’s Orbital AI Cloud Is Live
While Silicon Valley scrambles to perfect memory in chatbots, China just launched twelve AI satellites into space, and they’re already thinking faster than your laptop.
China has deployed the first 12 of 2,800 planned AI-powered satellites, each running an 8-billion-parameter model capable of 744 TOPS, forming the world’s first orbital supercomputing constellation.
Built by ADA Space with Zhejiang Lab, the “Three-Body Computing Constellation” processes data in space, reducing Earth-side bandwidth needs and latency. These satellites use 100Gbps laser links, store 30TB collectively, and even detect cosmic phenomena like gamma-ray bursts via an onboard polarimeter.
The aim: to hit 1,000 POPS in orbit, offering real-time AI computing for defense, disaster relief, gaming, and more.
- Each satellite processes its own data in space
- X-ray payloads detect transient cosmic events
- 2,800 satellites will target 1,000 POPS
The cloud is leaving the Earth. As orbital AI matures, national strategies, and digital economies, may be rewritten from space. Is this the start of a space-based AI cloud, and what does it mean if your next cloud provider is in low Earth orbit?
Read the full article on The Verge.
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