I’m excited to share WeatherNext 3, our most powerful AI forecasting model yet. WeatherNext 3 generates forecasts each hour and at high-resolution, giving timely and more localized predictions. It’s trained on new data sources, like live satellites, and achieves state-of-the-art skill, according to independent evaluations by Brightband. Importantly, it will also be accessible to billions of people across Google products worldwide. One of the features I’m most excited about is its ability to forecast precipitation, which was a longstanding challenge for global weather forecasting models. Precipitation forecasts can be up to 50% more accurate, with the greatest precipitation forecasting improvements in regions where forecasts have traditionally been less reliable. There are also new variables that are particularly relevant for renewable energy forecasting, like turbine-height wind speed and high resolution cloud cover. There are many other improvements across the board, and together this was the result of fantastic work by our teams at @GoogleDeepMind and @GoogleResearch . Link: blog.google/innovation-and-a…