earth-labs

foundation modelsfor the earth's crust.

click anywhere on the crust · drill
lat 40.712800° / lon -74.005200° / depth 3214.7 m
training · tacc/horizon
seismic record · live · channels 01—06sample rate 1 khz · gain 12 db
§ 01thesis
§ 01
thesis

beneath the noise of every measurement lies a lower-dimensional manifold of latent geological processes. we are training the model that finds it.

natural hydrogen — a zero-carbon fuel produced continuously by the serpentinization of ultramafic rocks — may be a multi-trillion-ton resource. it replenishes. it costs roughly $1/kg.

finding it requires reading the crust. petabytes of borehole and seismic data already exist, scattered across incompatible silos, 5–10% complete. classical methods cannot interpolate. foundation models can.

§ 02the model
§ 02
the model

jennifer-h2 — a multi-modal foundation model for the subsurface.

joint embedding neural network interpolation for earth resources · h2
inputs
gravity · magnetics · crustal thickness · bathymetry · 2D/3D seismic · borehole logs
core
masked joint-embedding predictive transformer. self-supervised, cross-modal, trained on a unified corpus of real-world heterogeneous data.
output
full posterior over subsurface properties. probabilistic zero-shot inversion in minutes, not weeks.
§ 03evidence
§ 03
evidence

validation — 2 PB ocean borehole corpus, neurips 2026.

corpus coverage · equirectangular10 active basins · 25.0 PB
-180°-120°-60°0°60°120°180°-60°-30°0°30°60°diskosnorth sea · 22 PBtnonetherlands · 5,800eposeurope · 800 TBnibiusa · 182,193aus.gov4,000 km 2D seismiciodp/lilypacific · 2 PBiodp/lilyindian oceaniodp/lilyatlanticiodp/lilysouth atlanticgeoph.asia
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subsurface corpus
200,000+ boreholes · all major basins · unified
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R² · data reconstruction
vs. lasso baseline 0.24 — 3× better
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AUC · lithology classification
12 classes · cross-basin
ζ
zero-shot generalization
generalizes to unseen cores without retraining
§ 04team
§ 04
team

two founders. backed by ut austin.

John M. Aiken, PhD
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co-founder · chief scientist
geophysics & ml · formerly njord centre, university of oslo
Andrew Dong
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co-founder · engineering
platform engineer · formerly rubrik, recurse center