Nvidia (NVDA) has released Earth-2, its artificial intelligence models and tools for generating 15-day global and local weather forecasts, which, coincidentally, is at the same time a severe winter storm is affecting the U.S. from Texas to Massachusetts.
The storm has prompted at least 12 states to make federal disaster declarations, caused widespread power outages, forced flight delays, and interrupted oil and gas production.
Nvidia’s Earth-2 AI models, libraries, and frameworks for weather and climate AI are open.
“Historically, weather forecasting has relied on powerful supercomputers running physics-based models,” Nvidia said. “AI-powered weather forecasting saves significant computational time and costs, allowing more nations, weather enterprises and businesses to run application-specific forecasting systems.”
Multiple weather services around the globe are already using Earth-2 models to enhance their coverage. This includes Brightband, the Israel Meteorological Service, Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration, The Weather Company, and the U.S. National Weather Service. It is also being used by energy companies and grid operators such as TotalEnergies (TTE), Eni, GCL and Southwest Powerpool in collaboration with Hitachi (HTHIY); energy trading solutions providers Jua and Metdesk; and financial risk and intelligence firms AXA, JBA Risk Management and S&P Global Energy (SPGI).
The Earth-2 models announced today include Medium Range, Nowcasting, Global Data Assimilation, CorrDiff and FourCastNet3. Earth-2 also integrates open weather models from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG)(GOOGL).
Google DeepMind has been expanding its AI weather models as well, including WeatherNext2, which can produce a 15-day forecast on a single TPU in one minute.