Google says its AI weather model is getting better
Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that’s supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall.
In the announcement today, the company says it’s now able to make forecasts with “unprecedented resolution” using its new WeatherNext 3 AI model. It can produce a global picture that’s five times sharper than Google’s previous model by learning from real-time weather observations, according to the company.
“One of the main developments is for [WeatherNext 3] to go beyond what data most global AI models train on,” says Samier Merchant, a research engineer at Google Research. “We’re able to leverage fresher and richer observational data sets.”
“We’re able to leverage fresher and richer observational data sets.”
Weather forecasting has traditionally relied primarily on supercomputers that simulate the physics of the atmosphere. That involves solving complex equations, and ultimately comes with a time-lag. AI weather models created...
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