DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane GOOGLE'S AI WEATHER FORECASTER Source: Google & Stock On this Earth Day, it is sobering to consider how Climate Change is escalating episodes of extreme weather globally from the persistent twisters hitting the central and southern US to the flooding rains in Dubai and elsewhere. Now we learn that Google has innovated an AI weather model that forecasts faster, cheaper and more accurate weather forecasts than today's conventional models. And it is particularly geared to extreme weather to expand warning times. Here are the facts: Called GraphCast Created by scientists at Google's DeepMind Predicts weather 10 days in advance in less than a minute on a single desktop computer Google says it offers unprecedented accuracy and speed Doesn't need huge supercomputers and take hours Beats world's top forecasting agencies Particularly geared to forecas