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Synthetaic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Delafield, WI.

History
Synthetaic was founded in 2019 by Corey Jasksolski, a National Geographic Explorer and Fellow. After creating a 3D digitization of a living Sumatran Rhino using a custom imaging system he built, Jaskolski wondered if synthetic data could be used to train AI. While Synthetaic doesn't sell synthetic data, its software uses generative capabilities associated with synthetic data.

In 2021, Synthetaic developed Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC, a computer vision software which performs classification and detection on photography, video, and satellite imagery without data labeling.

RAIC is notable for its use of human collaboration with an unsupervised AI model, which allows for iteration upon the algorithm in real-time. RAIC has been described as "ChatGPT for satellite imagery," since it uses transformers to understand imagery in a way somewhat similar to how ChatGPT understands human language.

2023 Chinese balloon
On February 11, 2023, Synthetaic used its RAIC product to detect a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in archival Planet Labs data. . RAIC's demonstrated ability to quickly analyze Earth observation imagery at scale was deemed novel and a potential "game-changer" by experts including Arthur Holland Michel and Dr. Hamed Alemohammad.

Synthetaic's work tracking the balloon formed the basis for a New York Times visual investigation, which credited RAIC for providing the precise coordinates of the balloon at twelve different points during its journey.