Artificial Intelligence
AI Weather & Climate Modeling
AI-native weather and climate modeling has rapidly displaced decades-old physics-based numerical weather prediction as the state of the art, led by Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 2 (announced November 2025), NVIDIA's open Earth-2 platform (launched January 2026), and satellite-native challenger Tomorrow.io. WeatherNext 2 generates hundreds of probabilistic 15-day forecasts in under a minute on a single TPU, outperforming prior models on 99.9% of variables and helping the U.S. National Hurricane Center predict Hurricane Melissa's rapid intensification and Jamaica landfall five days in advance; NVIDIA's Earth-2, built on architectures including CorrDiff, StormScope, Atlas and HealDA, downscales coarse global forecasts to high-resolution regional fields up to 500x faster and 10,000x more energy-efficiently than traditional methods, while Tomorrow.io pairs diffusion-model forecasting with its own microwave-sensing satellite constellation to densify real-world atmospheric data collection.
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- Google DeepMind — WeatherNext helps NHC predict Hurricane Melissa's landfall in Jamaica50% source confidence
- SiliconANGLE / HPCwire — NVIDIA launches open Earth-2 weather and climate AI platform48% source confidence
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Nov 2025 · Google DeepMind announces WeatherNext 2
Google DeepMind and Google Research announced WeatherNext 2, an AI weather model generating hundreds of probabilistic scenarios out to 15 days in under a minute on a single TPU, outperforming previous models on 99.9% of variables; it has since been integrated into Google Search, Maps, Gemini and Pixel Weather.
Jan 2026 · NVIDIA launches open Earth-2 weather and climate AI platform
NVIDIA launched Earth-2, a fully open family of AI weather and climate models and tools including the CorrDiff super-resolution downscaling architecture, StormScope, Atlas and HealDA, enabling customers like S&P Global and the Israel Meteorological Service to cut compute requirements by up to 90% while improving forecast accuracy.