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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic's Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for a spacecraft.
Why it matters: It shows generative AI being applied to spacecraft autonomy in real mission planning.
Written by AI from IEEE Spectrum AI's published text.
Background
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Anthropic
- Latest funding
- Growth · $65B · 28 May 2026
- Newest model on the API
- Claude Haiku 5.5 · 7 Oct 2026 · $0.1 in / $0.5 out per million tokens
Source
“Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It’s shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too.”
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