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Breakthrough Listen and SETI Institute Use Agentic AI at the Allen Telescope Array

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Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are using agentic AI to operate antennas and process data at the Allen Telescope Array, with a pipeline that NVIDIA says has achieved the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The system lets users steer antennas, correct incoming data and apply AI models through natural language requests. NVIDIA Holoscan and related tools support processing 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, with AI inference running on premises. The detected pulsar is a result of the signal-processing pipeline used in the organizations’ search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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    How Agentic AI Helps Search for Extraterrestrial Signals at the Allen Telescope Array

    Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are using agentic AI at the Allen Telescope Array to steer antennas, correct incoming data and apply AI models through natural language requests. NVIDIA Holoscan and related tools support processing 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, with inference running on premises. The pipeline has already achieved what the source describes as the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula.

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