Google Research has open-sourced SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to automatically identify nearly 2,500 species of animals from camera trap images. Trained on over 65 million labeled images, the tool assists researchers and conservationists in analyzing vast amounts of wildlife data more efficiently. SpeciesNet, which works alongside another model called MegaDetector, can process thousands of images daily on standard hardware and is part of Google's broader Earth AI initiative. AI
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RANK_REASON This is a release of an open-source AI model from a major tech company for a specific research application, fitting the 'research' bucket.