AI is Google’s new favorite hammer and the next nail on its path is weather forecasting. The company is introducing GenCast, a “high resolution AI ensemble model”, which was detailed in a paper published in Nature.
Accurate weather forecasting is important for anything from your day-to-day life to disaster preparedness and even renewable energy. And GenCast beats the current top system, ECMWF’s ENS, in forecasts up to 25 days in advance.
GenCast is a diffusion model, similar to those you may have seen in AI image generators. However, this one is tuned specifically for Earth’s…
