You probably didn't know it, but if you played or are still playing Pokémon Go (there are more than half a million active players), you were helping train an AI-powered geospatial model that ...

When Pokémon Go first launched in 2016 ... Did players realize they were training an AI when they signed up to catch Pokémon?

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, revealed its ambitions to develop ... they’re contributing to the training of Niantic’s AI. Traditional maps rely on cars or flying drones to take ...

but they've been training more than their Pokémon. Niantic, the developer behind the popular mobile game Pokémon Go, announced last week it is building an AI model to map the physical world.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic is hard at work building and training an AI to essentially be able to auto-complete real-world locations with only a limited amount of information. And it's using ...

Recently, a new clue emerged. In a blog post, gaming company Niantic said it's training a new AI on millions of real-world images collected by Pokémon Go players and in its Scaniverse app. Inspired by ...

In a recent blog post from Pokémon GO developer Niantic, the company has laid out its plans for what it calls a 'Large Geospatial Model', an AI that fills in the blanks for geographical locations ...

Niantic has announced new technology that they are developing and using on Pokémon Go, that has already ruffled ... we have to explain something about modern day AI. Most consumers are being ...

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the ...