OpenUK's AI Openness report, published in July 2026, features a fireside chat with Anil Madhavapeddy on open foundation models like TESSERA, emphasizing that non-inspectable, non-reproducible models a…
Researchers at the University of Cambridge built TESSERA, a planetary-scale foundation model for Earth observation, using AMD Instinct GPUs instead of Nvidia hardware. The model, trained on 16 AMD MI3…
Anil Madhavapeddy, a University of Cambridge computer scientist, examined a first-year PhD viva in the Faculty of Law on planetary infrastructure regulation and reported that 1.7 million low Earth orb…
Anil Madhavapeddy spoke at the CHIA annual conference in Cambridge on AI for science and career guidance for young scientists, and wrote up notes from the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum held in L…
Sir David Attenborough visited the Cambridge Conservation Initiative's 10th anniversary, while Andrew Balmford delivered the Royal Society Environment Prize lecture on sustainable high-yield farming. …
Developer Anil Madhavapeddy released TESSERA v1.1 and GeoTessera 0.9, improving temporal embeddings and S3+Zarr support, while also advancing io-uring libraries for OCaml. The updates address performa…
Sadiq Jaffer spoke about TESSERA at Cambridge's Pint of Science event, while Cambridge undergraduates Radhika Iyer and Oliver Fogelin completed dissertations applying TESSERA to conservation and build…
Researchers at Cambridge University used AI and a 20-petabyte geospatial model called TESSERA to help identify hedgehogs in images, leading to a BBC News article and a flurry of media appearances. The…