Rainforest Connection

A session on AI and conservation at Wild Things drew passionate presenters and audience members. The session also gave pros (glimpses of help for conservation) and cons (possible incoming machine hell).

Dave Weston of ORNL employs robotics, imaging, and AI at APPL to advance plant resilience research and has found a gene that increases poplar growth.

Raspberry AI, a generative platform for fashion creatives, is expanding its platform by launching three new tools for marketing and merchandising teams.

An AI-powered app helping children speak to endangered animals; a tool to use nature to fight climate change; a way to measure forest health; and a method to make decisions to build healthy communities - these four projects are using space data to help nature.

Species classification and distribution mapping have traditionally relied on isolated data sources such as image recognition or geographic information systems. While these approaches provide useful insights,

A type of Artificial Intelligence that mimics the functioning of the human brain could represent a powerful solution in automatically detecting wildfires, plummeting the time needed to mitigate their devastating effects,

Leading the list of announcements is a new partnership with Hugging Face Inc., the world's largest repository of open-source machine learning models. Under the partnership, JFrog will provide advanced security scanning across all models hosted on the Hugging Face Hub, with a "JFrog Certified" badge highlighting models that pass verification.

The program funds proof of concepts for new ideas leveraging advanced cloud computing, including generative AI, to solve some of the biggest challenges in the fight against climate change