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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
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In Short: Today, Google DeepMind and Google Research are introducing WeatherNext 3, the most advanced and accurate global weather model to date, according to independent live evaluations by Brightband.
Today, Google DeepMind and Google Research are introducing WeatherNext 3, the most advanced and accurate global weather model to date, according to independent live evaluations by Brightband.
Google has launched WeatherNext 3, an advanced AI model that provides more accurate, high-resolution weather forecasts by using real-time satellite data instead of traditional physics simulations.
WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques, and Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini, as well as being available to users and researchers on Google’s cloud platforms.
WeatherNext 3 begins powering weather experiences in Google Search, the Gemini app, Google Maps, and several of Google’s developer and business services from today, so you may start to notice the improvements right away.
After the ECMWF released more than half a century of weather data produced by these systems in 2018, deep learning researchers began training models that could make predictions far more quickly and with comparable accuracy to government tools.
Regardless, both models still rely on national weather datasets to perform forecasts, so more work will be required for true direct data assimilation.
Most of us have probably looked out the window at falling rain while our weather app confidently suggests we won’t get wet if we head out.
“At the end of the day, I think Google is about providing useful information to the user, and a lot of what users are looking for has to do with the weather in some way or another,” Alet said.
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