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Orbital inference is projected 1000x cheaper by the 2030s

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Analysis suggested orbital AI inference will fall to a thousandth the cost of ground-based compute by the 2030s.

Reported metric: 1/1000th cost

Reporting date: 2025-12-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Starcloud runs the first LLM training run in orbit

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Orbital inference is projected 1000x cheaper by the 2030s
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Reporting date: 2025-12-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-29-orbital-inference-1000x-cheaper
Claim: Analysis suggested orbital AI inference will fall to a thousandth the cost of ground-based compute by the 2030s.
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- Welcome to December 29, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-29-2025
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