NASA And IBM Made An AI Model For Exploring The Moon

The two organizations are also releasing a dataset researchers can use to make their own models.

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This past spring, the world experienced a rare moment of collective joy and awe when NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the Moon since 1972, completed its historic lunar flyby. On April 6, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen flew farther from Earth than any humans before them. Now, as NASA prepares for the next Artemis mission and beyond, the space agency is working with IBM to give scientists new tools to study the Moon.

On Thursday, the two organizations released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model. It's an open-source AI system that's available to download from Hugging Face. As a foundation model, it can do a few different things, says Dr. Juan Bernabé-Moreno, the director of IBM Research Europe, UK and Ireland. To start,...

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