China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in
As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China’s coast this week, the country’s bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure.
Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring resources into models that promise to see storms coming sooner and cheaper than the supercomputers that have long done the job.
Three home-grown systems lead the effort. Fengwu comes from the Shanghai AI Laboratory, Pangu from Huawei, and Fuxi from Fudan University, a spread that puts a state lab, a tech champion, and a leading university into the same race.
It is a very Chinese arrangement, and a deliberate one, since forecasting has quietly become a field where AI supremacy carries real-world stakes.
The headline claims are striking. Fengwu reportedly outperformed Google DeepMind’s GraphCastacross roughly 80% of the weather variables it...
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