My other story for WSJ was on how foundation models are being fed satellite data and how that means a lot more of us could have access to cutting edge tools that let use explore Earth and track things we care about.

Foundation models is the tech under tools like ChatGPT, but can be put to use doing all sorts of things, like spotting illegal airstrips with satellite data in my story or study DNA sequencing, covered in this Quanta story. Let’s try out AI to save the planet or understand new things about ourselves and not just use it to create ad copy, alright?

Here’s a gift link to my Earth foundation model story.