New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- In a significant step toward building machine learning infrastructure beyond Earth, Google has successfully tested its Trillium-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) in a particle accelerator to simulate radiation conditions found in low-Earth orbit.

The development marks a significant milestone in Project Suncatcher, Google's ambitious initiative to explore scalable AI computing systems in space.

In a social media post Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated, "Early research shows our Trillium-generation TPUs (our tensor processing units, purpose-built for AI) survived without damage when tested in a particle accelerator to simulate low-earth orbit levels of radiation"

According to the Google CEO, the TPUs, specialise...