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Google’s AI weather prediction model is pretty darn good

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GenCast is a machine learning weather prediction model trained on weather data from 1979 to 2018 .

It can produce one 15-day forecast in just eight minutes using a single Google Cloud TPU v5.

GenCast outperformed ENS 97.2 percent of the time when tested on data from 2019 .

There’s growing interest in how AI can be used to improve forecasts.

Forecasters can check out GenCast for themselves; DeepMind released the code for its open-source model.

“You would want to know what the wind is going to be doing throughout the day , not just at 6AM and 6PM .”.