Niantic's geospatial model is using geolocation data from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing the company's mobile games.

Data captured from Pokémon Go and other games are being used to create large AI models that can predict what buildings and other objects look like.

Scans of the world from Pokemon Go and Ingress are the backbone of Niantic’s AI model, which aims to navigate the world like ChatGPT spits out text.