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Turn decades of satellite and aerial imagery into instant insights. LGND delivers fast, scalable Earth intelligence through intuitive apps, embeddings, and APIs.

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News YahooFinance 1 day ago
Ligand (LGND)-AvenCell Deal: Most of the Funding Is Tied to Milestones
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:LGND) is building a business model that differs from that of many drug developers. Rather than relying on internally operated drug development programs, the company funds third-party programs and acquires royalt
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News Lgnd.ai - Devlogs 6 months ago
ELLE: Embeddings Linearly contain their Loss Estimate
Foundation model CLS embeddings linearly encode their own per-sample pretraining loss - readable by a Ridge probe in 1 us, with no labels and no extra forward passes. Validated across 20 models and 6 modalities.
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
LGND AI: $9 Million Secured For Improving Earth Data
LGND AI, a company innovating how people and AI interact with Earth data, announced it has raised $9 million in financing. The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from several other firms and notable angel investors, including Jo
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
Exclusive: LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth
LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.
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