--- title: Outerview emoji: 🌍 colorFrom: blue colorTo: purple sdk: static pinned: true --- # Outerview **A research lab building world models.** Outerview is a research lab focused on understanding the physical world at planetary scale. We are building systems that can organize the world’s physical information and make it accessible and usable — transforming raw imagery, video, location, and spatial context into knowledge that people and machines can search, interpret, and act on. Our belief is simple: the physical world should be as searchable and understandable as the digital world. --- ## What we work on We work on world models: systems that help machines understand **what exists, where it is, how it changes, and how to navigate it**. This includes research and infrastructure for: - large-scale physical world understanding - geospatial search and retrieval - visual and spatial representation learning - earth-scale indexing of imagery and video - real-world reasoning across time and place --- ## Our mission **Organize the world’s physical information and make it accessible and usable.** We see this as foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI systems, robotics, mapping, autonomy, logistics, science, and real-world discovery. --- ## Why this matters Today, most of the world’s physical information is fragmented, unstructured, and difficult to use. Images, street-level video, geographic context, and changes over time exist in massive quantities, but they are not yet organized into a system that can be queried like knowledge. We are working toward that system. A world model should not only describe the world, but help people and machines: - search the physical environment - understand real places and objects - reason over change through time - build applications grounded in reality --- ## Research direction Our work sits at the intersection of: - computer vision - geospatial intelligence - multimodal representation learning - search and retrieval systems - physical-world AI We are interested in building models and datasets that improve how AI systems perceive, index, and interact with the real world. --- ## On Hugging Face This organization is where we share selected research artifacts, datasets, and experiments related to physical-world understanding. These releases are part of a broader effort to help make the world more observable, searchable, and computable. --- ## Vision We believe world models will become core infrastructure. Not just for understanding text, images, or the web but for understanding reality itself. Outerview exists to help build that future.