Counting the AI Models Nobody Releases

Detecting a ship at sea is nearly trivial; identifying what kind of ship it is takes custom labeled data that almost nobody publishes. This episode follows that gap into a much bigger question: how many private image recognition models actually exist? There's no public count, but triangulating from Hugging Face, enterprise deployments, and government programs produces some staggering numbers. Along the way: why the ocean is the easiest canvas in satellite imaging, what Frigate's bird problem reveals about granularity, and why the private model ecosystem functions like dark matter — inferred from its effects, never directly observed.

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