How Pokemon Go's maker is building geospatial models to guide robots

Data generated by millions of Pokemon Go players is now powering Niantic's geospatial AI models that help autonomous robots navigate complex urban environments ...
Forbes

Stretching From LLMs To LGMs: Intelligence And The Amazing Promise Of Large Geospatial Models

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the advancement of large language ...
SpaceRef

IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and open-source AI platform Hugging Face today announced that IBM’s watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA’s satellite data – will now be openly available on Hugging ...
Oil

3-D pipeline spatial data advances design, operation

Testing of data provided by the Second Pipeline Construction Co. of China National Petroleum Corp. (PetroChina Pipeline) shows that using a 3D pipeline spatial-data model (PSDM) not only can further ...
Game Rant

Pokemon GO Data Used to Train Geospatial AI Model

Richard is a writer and game designer living in New York City. Niantic is building a geospatial AI model using data from popular AR games like Pokemon GO. The model, called the Large Geospatial Model, ...

Pokémon Go's AR data has been turned into centimeter-accurate navigation for delivery robots

Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a ...
News Medical

Geospatial model helps compare costs of different anticoagulant therapies

Appropriately selected anticoagulation therapy can help to reduce the medical costs of patients suffering from atrial fibrillation. A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that direct ...