Google's WeatherNext 3 model beats traditional forecasts with 5km resolution

google deepmind and google research scientists released weathernext 3, an ai weather model that provides more accurate forecasts with 5km resolution and 60% improved rain evaluations. it outperforms traditional forecasts from the us national weather service and the ecmwf, as well as other deep-learning models built by google, microsoft, nvidia, and the european center for medium-range weather forecasting. weathernext 3 can produce hourly forecasts and ingests weather satellite data collected in real-time on an hourly basis. the model will be integrated into google products such as search, google maps, and gemini, and will also be available to users and researchers on google's cloud platforms.