Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World.

The era of Large Language Models (LLMs) seems to have just reached its zenith, with the constant updates of ChatGPT and similar services demonstrating the constant use of these innovations - however, a rather eye-catching novelty seems ready to emerge from around the corner: Large Geospatial Models (LGMs), recently introduced by Niantic.

The company behind Pokémon Go, an mobile game that can be considered a technological revolution, recently published a post on its blog, titled ‘Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence’. The goal of this innovation is to enable technology to understand and enhance physical spaces, interact with them, and facilitate improvements in robotics and autonomous systems.

Just as LLMs use a variety of written content as a basis for their training, Niantic is using the countless data collected from Pokémon Go players to train its LGM.