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China’s Huawei is challenging traditional weather forecasting again, this time with groundbreaking AI model Zhiji
- Latest iteration of Huawei’s Pangu-Weather, a regional AI weather model, can give a five-day forecast to a precision of just 3km
- Feat comes as Pangu-Weather was named the top scientific innovation of 2023 by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
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Zhang Tongin Beijing
A groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) weather forecaster has been released by the team behind China’s Pangu-Weather prediction model, and it has a precision that has evolved from tens of kilometres to just a few kilometres.
The newest iteration of the AI model, Zhiji, which focuses on regional weather, can give a five-day forecast with a precision that has been sharpened from 25km (15.5 miles) to 3km.
Its launch came less than a month after Pangu-Weather, developed by Huawei Technologies, was named China’s best scientific innovation of 2023.
Since its release in August last year, Pangu has revolutionised weather forecasting, offering quicker and more accurate predictions than traditional meteorological methods.
Pangu-Weather first burst onto the scene in July 2023, when a paper detailing the AI model was published in the journal, Nature. A month later, it was launched on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) website.
The AI model hit a major milestone when it was able to complete a seven-day weather forecast in just 10 seconds – more than 10,000 times faster than traditional methods.
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