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Surya is an open‑source, AI‑based foundation model for heliophysics developed collaboratively by NASA (via the IMPACT AI team) and IBM. Named after the Sanskrit word for “sun,” Surya is trained on nine years of high‑resolution solar imagery from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It is designed to forecast solar phenomena—such as flares, solar wind, irradiance, and active region behavior—by predicting future solar images with a sophisticated long–short vision transformer architecture, thereby enabling improved space weather forecasting. ...

...It provides scripts to download pretrained checkpoints of different model sizes (small, medium, large) trained on large-scale datasets and includes utilities for handling color quantization with a 9-bit palette. Researchers can use the code to sample new images, evaluate generative loss on datasets like ImageNet or CIFAR-10, and explore the impact of scaling on performance. While the repository is archived and provided as-is, it remains a valuable starting point for experimenting with autoregressive transformers applied directly to raw pixel data. By demonstrating GPT’s flexibility across modalities, Image-GPT influenced subsequent multimodal generative research.