We

are

building

a

geospatial

AI

model

to

understand

the

world

Existing

maps

were

built

for

people

to

read

and

navigate

but

now

there

is

a

need

for

a

new

kind

of

map

that

makes

the

world

intelligible

for

machines,

for

everything

from

smart

glasses

to

humanoid

robots,

so

they

can

understand

and

navigate

the

physical

world.

Today's

LLMs

represent

the

first

step

towards

a

future

where

a

variety

of

expert

models

collaborate

to

reason

and

understand

complex

problems,

and

many

of

those

problems

will

require

deep

and

accurate

knowledge

of

the

physical

world.

Niantic

is

building

the

models

that

will

help

AI

move

beyond

the

screen

and

into

the

real

world.