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DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system

A satellite photo of typhoon Hagibis approaching Japan

Typhoon Hagibis approaches Japan in 2019. The storm was one of the events used to study the accuracy of an AI-based forecasting system.Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)/AP/Alamy

Google DeepMind has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) model of its kind to predict the weather more accurately than the best system currently in use. The model generates forecasts up to 15 days in advance ― and it does so in minutes, rather than the hours needed by today’s forecasting programs.

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