The Tiangong space station has been operating in orbit since 2022. It has made China one of the superpowers in the world of aerospace. Now they have taken it a step further after introducing the Wukong AI chatbot on Tiangong to help astronauts do their jobs. This artificial intelligence chatbot was developed by the company iFlytek using an open source model.
So far, Wukong AI has been used for a month by astronauts to plan activities such as working outside the space station. It interacts with astronauts using text. It operates with one system on the space station and another on Earth to provide relevant answers to the questions given.
China is the second country to successfully use LLM-based AI in space. Last year, Booz Allen and HPE first used LLM on the International Space Station (ISS), while Airbus also tested a robot with AI CIMON in 2018 to help astronauts do their jobs.