Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI chips could be flying in space by 2027

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has floated the possibility that the company’s AI processing hardware could operate in space within the next few years, marking one of the most surprising ideas yet to emerge from the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence. In a recent conversation with Google DeepMind’s Logan Kilpatrick, Pichai said the fast growth of AI models means Google may eventually have to look beyond Earth to meet the rising computing needs that are emerging. What sounded like a science fiction concept was framed as a logical next step driven by increasing demand, scaling models and the limits of traditional data centres.

Sundar Pichai hints at Google’s leap from cloud to cosmos