Joe Maring / Android Authority
TL;DR Google has announced “WeatherNext 2,” its most advanced weather forecasting model to date.
The company claims the new AI-powered weather prediction model outperforms the previous version on 99.9% of variables, resulting in more accurate and timely reports.
Google is integrating WeatherNext 2 in the Pixel Weather app, Google Search, Gemini, and Google Maps.
Google is giving its weather tools a major upgrade. The company has announced WeatherNext 2, its most advanced AI-powered weather forecasting model yet. According to Google, WeatherNext 2 will make weather information in the Pixel Weather app, Google Search, Gemini, and Google Maps more accurate and more useful.
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Google claims WeatherNext 2 can generate forecasts eight times faster than before and delivers hour-level resolution. That means your Pixel phone and Google Maps (along with Search and Gemini) will soon provide much more precise and up-to-the-hour updates about things like temperature, wind, humidity, and more.
This speed boost comes from WeatherNext 2’s ability to simulate hundreds of possible weather outcomes. Traditionally, weather agencies rely on supercomputers running physics-based models to make these predictions, and even then, it takes hours for accurate results. Google’s method generates these scenarios on a single TPU chip in less than a minute.
WeatherNext 2 is also designed to capture a wider range of possible outcomes. This can make predicting extreme-weather conditions, such as storms or cyclones, faster and more accurate.
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