Google DeepMind builds new AI model for predicting cyclones

Google DeepMind and Google Research have launched a new website called Weather Lab that shares their AI weather models today. The model is able to predict cyclone formations, their route, intensity, size and shape up to 15 days ahead, Google said in a blog. 

The experimental AI model can also generate 50 different scenarios for the storm.

The research teams have also released a new paper with details of the core along with an archive on Weather Lab of historical cyclone track data, evaluation and backtesting. 

Google also added that during internal testing they found that the model’s predictions were as accurate and often more accurate than current physics-based methods, they have also partnered with the U.S. National Hurricance Center (NHC) to evaluate further how effective the model is. 

The Weather Lab website also shows a comparison between how AI models perform and how the traditional models perform. 

Google has also released other AI weather prediction models like GenCast which surpassed one of the physics-based models 97.2 percent of the time, as per a study published in Nature.