New York Times Opinion writer David Wallace-Wells penned a piece questioning the value of many AI applications while highlighting KoBold as one of the more promising:
“This month, KoBold Metals announced the largest discovery of new copper deposits in a decade — a green-energy gold mine, so to speak, delivered with the help of its own proprietary A.I., which integrated information about subatomic particles detected underground with century-old mining reports and radar imagery to make predictions about where minerals critical for the green transition might be found.”