DeepMind’s Latest AI Weather Model Targets Energy Traders

Google DeepMind has released a new artificial intelligence weather model that it says is faster and more accurate than anything it’s built before, while providing additional tools for energy traders.

WeatherNext 2 builds on DeepMind’s previous AI models, which have demonstrated how machine learning can outperform traditional prediction methods.

The new model not only provides more accurate two-week forecasts of temperature, pressure and wind, but can also better predict tropical storm tracks, according to DeepMind researchers. That means its predictions of a hurricane’s path are as accurate three days ahead as the previous method was at two days out, testing ...