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NASA Joins Forces with Microsoft to Launch Earth Copilot AI, Simplifying Access to Complex Earth Data.

Science and Technology | Dated: 01 Dec 2024

In November 2024, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) partnered with Microsoft to develop the Earth Copilot, a custom Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot designed to respond to users' queries related to Earth with easy-to-understand data.

🎯 Key Highlights:

  • - The collaboration aims to transform how users can search, discover, and analyse NASA's geospatial data.
  • - It is part of NASA's Transform to Open Science initiative, which seeks to democratize access to over 100 petabytes of satellite imagery and Earth science data.

💡 Other Important Facts:

  • (i) The Earth Copilot will use natural language processing to simplify access to NASA data. This allows users to interact with NASA's data repository using plain language queries.
  • (ii) NASA collaborated with Microsoft to create a proof of concept model using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform and AI capabilities.
  • (iii) The Earth Copilot chatbot will simplify the process, making the data more simplified and accessible to scientists, educators, policymakers, and the general public.

📚 Test Your Knowledge:

Recently, NASA joined forces with which company to launch Earth Copilot AI?

Correct Answer: Microsoft

🚀 Quick Recap:

About NASA

  • Founder: Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Headquarters: Washington, D.C.