{"id":592674,"date":"2026-09-07T07:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592674\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:14:21","slug":"meet-the-apac-innovators-using-ai-to-protect-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592674\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the APAC innovators using AI to protect our planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"vm3m8\">Across the Asia-Pacific region, startups, nonprofits, and researchers are stepping up to build a more sustainable future. To help them scale these critical solutions, we\u2019ve selected 16 organizations for our <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/accelerator\/gdm-planet\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet in APAC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9iqkc\">Kicking off this week with a hands-on bootcamp in Singapore, the program, which supports startups, nonprofits, and research teams, will help them advance their ideas using frontier AI models \u2014 like <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-in\/company-news\/scaling-agri-resilience-from-india-to-the-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AnthroKrishi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.google\/blog\/forecasting-the-future-of-forests-with-ai-from-counting-losses-to-predicting-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ForestCast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/blog\/alphaearth-foundations-helps-map-our-planet-in-unprecedented-detail\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AlphaEarth Foundations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.google\/blog\/where-wild-things-roam-identifying-wildlife-with-speciesnet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpeciesNet<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/innovation-and-ai\/models-and-research\/google-deepmind\/perch-ai-model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perch<\/a> \u2014 to tackle urgent environmental challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across the Asia-Pacific region, startups, nonprofits, and researchers are stepping up to build a more sustainable future. To&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,11439,69,145],"class_list":["post-592674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-none","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}