AI startup WindBorne Systems outperforms government weather forecasts with greater efficiency
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Tom Chivers
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Summary
WindBorne Systems, an AI weather forecasting startup, has outperformed world-leading government-run systems. Their five-day forecasts match the accuracy of cutting-edge physics models' one-day predictions while requiring far less computing power. This follows Google DeepMind's model beating the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in 2024, which has since prompted ECMWF to incorporate AI into its own forecasting. The article highlights how AI is disrupting the centuries-old science of weather forecasting, which dates back to the 1860s.
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Since a Google DeepMind model beat the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in 2024, the ECMWF has begun incorporating AI into its own forecasts
Empirical weather forecasting dates back to the 1860s, but AI is increasingly reshaping it
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