28 August 2026
Caltech researcher releases open-source AI weather model
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- Anima Anandkumar, a Caltech professor, built FourCastNet, an AI model that predicts weather and runs on standard computer graphics processors rather than expensive supercomputers.
- The model matches the accuracy of traditional physics-based weather simulations, which use equations from atmospheric science rather than machine learning.
