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NASA and IBM released the Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI model for lunar science trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.
Why it matters: The model is described as reducing error in predicting polar ice deposits, which supports lunar science research.
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“NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science.”
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