by Jyoti Mann, Business Insider reports:
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is teaming up with Larry Ellison’s Oracle to help farms plan and predict their agricultural output using an AI tool.
Larry Ellison said on Oracle’s earnings call on Monday that it’s collaborating with Musk and SpaceX to create the AI-powered mapping application for governments. The tool creates a map of a country’s farms and shows what each of them is growing.
The Oracle executive chairman said the tool could help farms assess the steps needed to increase their output, and whether fields had enough water and nitrogen.
SpaceX entered the agricultural sector in January after announcing a partnership with John Deere. It’s going to start offering Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite communications service, to farmers this year so they can use the agriculture tech firm’s tools.
John Deere’s CTO, Jahmy Hindman, said in a press release at the time that it’s bringing Starlink to farmers so they can “maximize the value of connectivity to their operations.”
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