NASA and IBM Launch Open-Source AI Model for Future Moon Explorations
The NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model is one of the first of its kind: a publicly available AI model created to support exploration of the moon under NASA’s Artemis program.
Launched on Thursday and now available on the collaborative, open-source AI platform Hugging Face, the model was trained on decades of lunar observation data selected by IBM and NASA researchers to provide insights to advance human presence on the moon, according to a press release.
IBM and NASA have worked together for over 60 years, since they first collaborated to put the first man on the moon.
A new phase for moon exploration
In the past, scientists had to manually examine maps and images collected by different instruments that had been analyzing the moon for decades. Or they used low-resolution machine learning models designed only for a specific task.
The NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model not only saves researchers time...
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