Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud trained an artificial intelligence model from space for the first time, signaling a new era for orbital data centers that could alleviate Earth’s escalating digital infrastructure crisis. Last month, the Washington-based company launched a satellite with an Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit, sending a chip into outer space that’s 100 times more powerful than any GPU compute that has been in space before. Now, the company’s Starcloud-1 satellite is running and querying responses from Gemma, an open large language model from Google, in orbit, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been run on a high-powered Nvidia GPU in outer space, CNBC has learned. “Greetings, Earthlings! Or, as I prefer to think of you — a fascinating collection of blue and green,” reads a message from the recently launched satellite.

Full report : Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google’s Gemma.