ju22 May 20, 2025, 6:45 p.m.
Is China's AI space supercomputer the end of American tech dominance??
Just saw that China launched their first batch of AI satellites last week and the silence from mainstream tech media is absolutely deafening. They put 12 satellites into orbit that each contain 8 billion parameter AI models with 744 TOPS of computing power, as the first step toward a 2,800 satellite "Star Compute" constellation. Meanwhile our government is still arguing about TikTok while China is literally building Skynet in space.
Senate hearings this month confirmed that America's AI lead over China has narrowed to mere months and now they're processing AI workloads in actual space where we can't monitor or restrict them. The satellites communicate with each other via 100Gbps laser links and can process data independently without sending it back to Earth. This completely bypasses all our export controls and chip restrictions.
What's really concerning is the timing - DeepSeek just quietly released an updated R1 model that's even more censored than before, refusing to answer any criticism of the Chinese government while reports emerged that they may have stolen massive amounts of training data from Google Gemini and OpenAI accounts. Now they're taking this technology into orbit where international law becomes meaningless.
Each satellite generates 5 peta operations per second when combined, rivaling terrestrial AI systems. We're talking about AI processing power that's completely outside US jurisdiction, can't be shut off, and could coordinate with ground-based systems for surveillance or warfare. How is nobody freaking out about this??
nato May 26, 2025, 9:09 p.m.
Outer space treaty from 1967 says hi. Technically all space activities supposed to be for peaceful purposes only