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NASA and IBM made an AI model for exploring the Moon - Engadget

AnnouncementModelSep 10, 2026

NASA and IBM released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI system available on Hugging Face. In testing, it reduced errors by 23 percent compared to Microsoft's SwinV2-B in identifying potential ice on the lunar surface, and outperformed SwinV2-B by 19 percent at crater classification while using half the training data. The release includes a co-registered open-source dataset of more than two million data points from lunar orbiter missions for building future models.

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