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Nick Szabo·2026-03-16 03:53
RT Mark Gadala-Maria (@markgadala)This is wild.143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and ...