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USRA contributes science expertise to NASA-IBM lunar AI model

The Universities Space Research Association announced Sept. 18 it joined the open-source NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, which has already shown it can spot new craters on first pass.

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USRA announced on Sept. 18 that it contributed planetary science expertise, lunar dataset development and scientific evaluation to the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI model for analyzing lunar mission data.[1]