SHANGHAI, July 18 – Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology Co. on Saturday said it had launched the first constellation of a space-computing project that in total aims to deploy 1,000 satellites in space.
• Xingshu Tiansuan said the launch marked a step closer to the commercial operation of China’s first space-based computing network.
• The announcement coincided with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attendance at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, where he cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX, following its February merger with xAI, is advancing its own space-based computing initiatives, seeking to accelerate AI development.
(Reporting by Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Kirsten Donovan )
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