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NASA Sends Google Gemma 3 Language Model to Orbit

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully demonstrated Google's Gemma 3 vision-language model in orbit, analyzing satellite imagery in real time aboard Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite. The mission, called NAVI-Orbital, marks the first in-orbit use of a vision-language model and suggests a new paradigm for spacecraft interaction via natural language prompts.

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