Satlyt获800万美元种子轮，为卫星打造AI运行软件
原标题：Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
AI 摘要
前Google和SpaceX产品经理Rama Afullo创立的Satlyt完成800万美元种子轮融资，由休斯顿Non Sibi Ventures领投。该公司不建造自己的航天器，而是开发让AI模型在卫星上运行的软件，并已通过两次演示任务验证，包括在Momentus航天器上部署Google DeepMind的Gemma模型，将软件错误传输数据量减少超60%。其软件将于本周随SpaceX火箭发射，与Google的Project Suncatcher原型一同升空，目标是在轨构建跨卫星的共享计算云。
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The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming. The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business before a brief stint at SpaceX’s Starlink communications network in 2024. His experiences convinced him that there was untapped potential for computers in space. “When I was at SpaceX, I tried to pitch this internally. They said no. When I was at Google, I tried to pitch this internally. They said no,” he tells TechCrunch. So he left SpaceX and co-