The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Beat Rockets & China's #1 Open Model | EP #266

This episode is about the collision of Earth intelligence, orbital compute, Chinese open-weight AI, and a new wave of space infrastructure. The big idea is that “large earth models” and “project Suncatcher” are turning space data and space compute into core AI primitives.

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*Recorded on June 23rd, 2026

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