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There are huge areas of the earth with no google earth street view data. Even government telescopes pointed at the earth, as powerful as they are, aren't the same as having dozens or perhaps hundreds of phone cameras at ground level mapping out an entire area for you (while soymen try to catch a Vaporeon).
>Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) will pay $3.5bn (£2.7bn) to buy the gaming division of developer Niantic, whose titles include the hit mobile game Pokémon Go.
>Niantic: We are pioneering a Large Geospatial Model built on a proprietary database of over 30 billion posed images, adding spatial reasoning capabilities to Large Language Models through a spatially grounded and semantically rich understanding of the real world.
But hey at least you caught that shiney Pidgey that one time haha yeah that sure was something.