Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) is opening up artificial intelligence (AI)-powered weather forecasting tools to help more organizations build faster, cheaper prediction systems without relying solely on supercomputers.
At the American Meteorological Society's Annual Meeting, Nvidia introduced a new Nvidia Earth-2 family of open models, libraries, and frameworks, calling it the world's first fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack.
The company said the tools can speed every stage of forecasting, from processing observations to producing 15-day global forecasts or local storm forecasts.
Key Product Capabilities
Nvidia said Earth-2 Medium Range, built on the Atlas architecture, predicts up to 15 days ahead across 70+ variables.
It also rolled out Earth-2 Nowcasting, powered by StormScope, which uses generative AI trained on satellite and radar data to produce zero-to six-hour storm forecasts in minutes.
Nvidia also introduced Earth-2 Global Data Assimilation, powered by HealDA, to generate atmospheric "initial conditions" in seconds on GPUs instead of hours on supercomputers, and said pairing it with Medium Range creates the most skillful predictions from an open, all-AI pipeline.
Industry Adoption
Nvidia said developers and agencies are already running and testing Earth-2 tools, including Brightband, the Israel Meteorological Service, Taiwan's Central Weather Administration, The Weather Company, and the U.S. National Weather Service, plus energy and finance users such as TotalEnergies, Eni, GCL, Southwest Power Pool (with Hitachi), AXA, and S&P Global Energy.
Earth-2 Medium Range and Nowcasting are available through Nvidia Earth2Studio and on Hugging Face and GitHub, while Nvidia said Earth-2 Global Data Assimilation will launch later this year.
The push comes as others expand into AI weather forecasting.
Competitive Landscape
Last July, Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) expanded its decision-making software into AI-powered weather forecasting through a new partnership with Tomorrow.io.
Palantir teamed up with the weather analytics firm to embed real-time atmospheric data and predictive weather tools directly into its platforms, aiming to improve operational readiness for defense, aviation, government, and infrastructure customers.
NVDA Price Action: Nvidia shares were down 0.43% at $186.86 at the time of publication on Monday, according to Benzinga Pro data.
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