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Allen Institute releases OlmoEarth Platform for large-scale geospatial inference using satellite data

Product launch Provisional 95% confidence first seen 28 July 2026, 08:00

The Allen Institute released the OlmoEarth Platform, infrastructure designed to run geospatial inference jobs at planetary scale using foundation models trained on approximately 10 terabytes of satellite data. The platform can process continent-sized areas in about one day at minimal cost per square kilometer, utilizing thousands of CPUs and GPUs in parallel to achieve significant computational speedups for applications in conservation, climate monitoring, and wildfire risk assessment.

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28 Jul, 08:00 The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale Allen Institute (AI2) 28 Jul, 16:27 The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale Hugging Face Blog official

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Allen Institute releases OlmoEarth Platform for large-scale geospatial inference using satellite data

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