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SafeWalkr

SafeWalkr is an independent, free tool that maps the safest (not just shortest) walking route to school for every Fairfax County public school, using Street View imagery, sidewalk inventories, and traffic data.

Fairfax, VA
2026

Sign Language to Text (SL2T)

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), a model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

Marylebone, London, UK
2026

Institute for Worldmaking (IWM)

The Institute for Worldmaking (IWM) is a global cultural research lab and public platform developing tools for imagining and building dynamic futures for and from the Arab world.

Lebanon

AI-Powered Robot for Elderly Care Support (AIREC)

AI-equipped robot supporting elderly care

Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

CommonLingua

CommonLingua is a 2.35 million-parameters language identification model trained on 2,482,568 paragraphs from Structured Wikipedia and Common Corpus trained by Pleias in partnership with the GSMA's "AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa" initiative.

France
2026

REAL ML

REAL ML supports and advances interdisciplinary research that holds the use of algorithms and AI technologies to account—with a focus on the perspectives and experiences of marginalized communities

Oregon

cosmos.gl

a high-performance WebGL library for visualizing network graphs and machine learning embeddings.

Amazon Mining Watch

Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of gold mining activities in the Amazonian countries.

Air Quality Time Series Forecasting Using Machine Learning Algorithms

This study aimed to develop accurate short-term air quality forecasting models for Asunción, Paraguay using machine learning algorithms.

Asunción, Paraguay