AION-1
One model that reads galaxy images, spectra and catalogue numbers together; the 300M base model is out and larger ones are listed as coming.
- Made by
- Liam Parker, François Lanusse, Jeff Shen and others (Polymathic AI)
- Field
- Astronomy
- Learns from
- More than 200 million observations from five sky surveys, including SDSS, DESI and Gaia
- Size
- 300M to 3.1B parameters
- Open weights
- Some, MIT
- First public
- Oct 2025
- Source
- arxiv.org/abs/2510.17960
How it relates to Flare
A sign of where science foundation models are heading: one model across many instruments, as Flare would be across detector systems.
Links
Every figure here is from the source above, checked 17 October 2026. Something changed? Email [email protected].