This week, AB has an amazing chat with Paul Stevens, CEO of Voltitude, a company focused on exploring and unlocking the potential of the stratosphere for research and commercial applications. Voltitude is using small, low-cost, biodegradable latex balloons to carry meteorological sensors (dropsondes) into the stratosphere.

Is point'n'click end-to-end low-code spatial AI... possible? What about *no code*? Spoiler alert: the answers are yes and yes. Knowledge of development patterns and code syntax and how many words you can type per minute are no longer barriers to entry for most of us. It's time to get our hands dirty with spatial data!

This week is a free-flowing conversation between AB and Arseniy Sergeyev - a true 'young gun' of the spatial computing world - and the co-founder of a startup working on Adaptive User Interfaces. Arseniy shares his vision of a future where the world becomes the interface, with smart objects and environments adapting to individual users.

AB and Dr. Mehdi Ravanbakhsh - an expert in the field of geospatial AI (GeoAI) - discuss a wide range of topics related to Mehdi's extensive experience and contributions in the geospatial industry, including photogrammetry, remote sensing, and AI applications in various domains such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and insurance.

This week, AB talks Alison Kealy, the inaugural Director of the Innovative Planet Research Institute at Swinburne University in Victoria Australia. We touch on the institute's focus on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, harnessing innovation for real-world impact, and building partnerships within Swinburne and externally. AB also *finally* learns the right way to say the word "geodesists".

This week, AB talks with Phil Delaney, CEO of MapAI. This new company aims to provide a conversational interface for querying spatial data using large language models fine-tuned for spatial analysis. 

We also touch upon the Australian Satellite-Based Augmentation Service (SBAS) called SouthPan, which provides precise satellite positioning corrections, and its potential $6 billion in benefits across various sectors in Australia.

The last month has seen the release of 4 large language models, with one noticeable trait in common - they're all exceedingly fast. Does this open up new horizons for new ways of interacting with these LLMs - or are they still only good for the known use cases... just faster?

Mirek and AB give an introduction/primer on ROS - the Robot Operating System - an open-source framework for developing robotic applications.

We talk through the megatrends we're watching closely in the field of Spatial AI - with links and demos - including a turtle high-dive, because, Hubert.

An introduction to the topic of generative Spatial AI and its potential impact on the design process in the building and construction space. How much assistance can generative AI give to spatial tasks - and where's the inflection point where we use these methods in our everyday ways of working?