Balloon-tracker Synthetaic partners with Microsoft for cloud power


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Under the five-year partnership, announced Aug. 29, Synthetaic will have access to nearly 1 million hours of cloud-computing power. “Using AI to extract insights from image data is like building a fire: you need heat (AI algorithm), fuel (data), and oxygen (compute),” Corey Jaskolski, the Synthetaic founder and CEO, said in a statement. Here’s your first look at that Chinese spy balloonSynthetaic previously partnered with Planet Labs, a provider of Earth-observation imagery. “We’ll be working with Planet to run this across Planet data, going forward and backward,” Jaskolski said. “It’s actually a really cool use case of RAIC because Planet has a six-year archive going back across the Earth.