NVIDIA Launches Earth-2 Family of Open Models — the World’s First Fully Open, Accelerated Set of Models and Tools for AI Weather

AI weather and climate prediction is more accessible than ever for scientists, startups, developers, enterprises and government agencies worldwide.

At the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting, NVIDIA today unveiled a new NVIDIA Earth-2 family of open models, libraries and frameworks for weather and climate AI, offering the world’s first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack.

These open technologies — including pretrained models, frameworks, customization recipes and inference libraries — accelerate all forecasting stages, from processing initial observation data to generating 15-day global forecasts or local storm forecasts.

Historically, weather forecasting has relied on powerful supercomputers running physics-based models. AI-powered weather forecasting saves significant computational time and costs, allowing more nations, weather enterprises and businesses to run application-specific forecasting systems.

Making production-ready weather AI fully accessible for organizations to run, fine-tune and deploy on their own infrastructure, NVIDIA Earth-2 is the first open, accelerated set of models and tools that enables developers to bring disparate weather and climate AI capabilities together.