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Satlyt, Founded by a Former Google and SpaceX Product Manager, Raises $8M to Run AI on Satellites

Satlyt, founded by former Google and SpaceX Starlink engineer Rama Afullo, has raised an $8M seed round to build software that runs AI models on other companies’ satellites. We explain what its Gemma experiment in orbit showed, what flew on SpaceX’s Transporter-18, who invested, how it compares with Google’s Project Suncatcher and what comes next.

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Perplexity to Launch Hybrid Mode on Mac Using Local Models for Subtasks

TestingCatalog has surfaced Hybrid mode, an unreleased setting in Perplexity Computer’s Mac app that keeps orchestration in the cloud while delegating suitable subtasks to a model running locally, plus a Privacy Gate model that checks outbound data for personal information and asks the user before it is sent. This article covers the three downloadable local models (a 19GB Perplexity model, Qwen 32B at 17.4GB, and a 5.6GB Gemma-based model for 16GB Macs), which Mac mini configurations qualify, how Privacy Gate differs from June’s hybrid agentic inference design, the credit arithmetic the feature targets, how it compares with the Nvidia-only Portable Computer, and what a UK business should do about a feature that is still hidden and undated.

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