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Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

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Niantic plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from its mobile games.

The model draws from over 10 million scanned locations worldwide, with users capturing roughly 1 million new scans weekly .

The company reports it has trained more than 50 million neural networks, each representing a specific location.

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English

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