DeepMind Open-Sources WeatherNext: AI Predicts Hurricanes a Day Earlier
Rick_06 · reddit · 2026-08-10
A new paper in Nature reveals that Google DeepMind's WeatherNext AI model predicts cyclones with unprecedented accuracy, providing an extra day of lead time compared to existing models. The model is fully open-source on GitHub, breaking the traditional reliance on supercomputers as it now requires only a single H100 GPU to run.
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