China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme weather intensifies

As meteorologists tracked Typhoon Dolphin’s path toward China in recent days, ​a new generation of artificial intelligence weather ​models worked alongside traditional forecasting systems, highlighting China’s emergence as a leading player in ​the race to improve weather prediction.

Chinese-developed systems, including Shanghai AI Laboratory-developed Fengwu, Huawei’s Pangu and Fudan University’s Fuxi, are among a handful of AI forecasting models that researchers say can generate forecasts much faster than conventional systems while matching or surpassing them on some measures ‌of accuracy.