Open-Weight AI in Space: Gemma 3 Runs Onboard NASA's YAM-9 Satellite — Day 18/30
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TL;DR — NASA's JPL flew a 4-bit quantized, unmodified Gemma 3 4B on a Loft Orbital satellite this year, running vision-language inference on live Earth imagery with no ground-based datacenter in the loop. This episode looks at why open weights, not APIs, are what makes onboard AI in orbit possible,…
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- 2026-09-07 13:16 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Open-Weight AI in Space: Gemma 3 Runs Onboard NASA's YAM-9 Satellite — Day 18/30