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NASA’s Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit

Editor’s Note: This article was updated May 7, 2026 to include a link to the preprint article for this research. A team of researchers from Adelaide University and the SmartSat Cooperative Research Center in South Australia has successfully uploaded and demonstrated NASA and IBM’s open-source Prithvi Geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model aboard two in-orbit platforms, making it the first geospatial…