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Minds Behind Maps

What does a Foundational Model of Earth look like? Clay Foundation: Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño - MBM#67

May 24, 2024
Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño, Executive Director of the Clay Foundation, discusses the v1 Foundational Model of Earth, open source projects, and philanthropic funding. Topics include embeddings, relationship between data, transparency, Earth observation, and updating foundational models.
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  • Foundational models streamline tasks by precomputing common computations efficiently.
  • Embeddings enable compact representation and accurate processing of Earth data.

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Understanding Foundational Models for Earth Preservation

Foundational models are pivotal for various tasks by precomputing common computations needed, allowing for efficient reusability. These models, exemplified by the Clay Foundation's V1 for Earth, utilize pretraining on extensive data like Wikipedia for robust understanding in specific applications like movie review categorization. Unlike dedicated models, foundational models provide flexibility and efficiency, requiring less labeled data for diverse tasks like text categorization and image segmentation.

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