Google’s “Suncatcher” announced
Today, Google has announced “Suncatcher”—its plan for a space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system. Advanced Projects Group collaborated with Google’s Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team to create the physically accurate interactive visualizations that helped green-light the project internally.
Advanced Projects Group—led by myself (Stewart Smith) and Robert Gerard Pietrusko—worked directly with Pi co-founder Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Pi Senior Director Travis Beals, and their incredibly talented colleagues to create materials for pitching “Suncatcher” to Google / Alphabet executives—including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Our effort was a success.
Now that Google has made its Suncatcher moonshot mission public, we can admit that it exists, and that Advanced Projects Group were honored to have played a small part in its internal pitch phase. (I will also add that not only is “solar-powered artificial intelligence in space” an exciting topic on its own, the Pi team were a joy to work with. Five stars. Would recommend.) In true APG fashion, we cannot say more at this time. Watch this space.
Read the Google Research “Suncatcher” announcement here: https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/