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Niantic is building a ‘geospatial’ AI model based on Pokémon Go player data

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How Pokémon Go is helping robots deliver pizza on time

Niantic's AI spinout is using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players to train a new world model.

Niantic Has a Customer for its Pokémon Go-Fueled Map of the World.

Coco Robotics, which makes autonomous delivery robots, announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with Niantic Spatial, the AI spinoff of the Pokémon Go developer. Niantic’s geospatial AI model, which was trained on images from AR scans in Pokémon Go, will help Coco’s robots find their way to your house.