GenCast is part of Google's expanding AI-powered weather model suite, which includes enhancing Google Search and Maps with improved forecasting for precipitation, wildfires, flooding and extreme heat.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’s model is widely considered to be the gold standard. It was what Google wanted to beat with its first-of-its-kind AI version — and it did.

However, Google’s new AI weather model is unlikely to replace the current ... powering user experiences on Google Search and Google Maps with improved forecasting of precipitation, wildfires ...

Google’s DeepMind team unveiled an AI model for weather prediction this week called ... which it’s starting to incorporate into Google Search and Maps. It also plans to release real-time ...

AI is Google’s new favorite hammer and the next nail on its path is weather forecasting. The company is introducing GenCast, a “high resolution AI ensemble model”, which was detailed in a ...