Nvidia has virtually recreated the entire planet – and now it wants to use its digital twin to crack weather forecasts for good
Faster and more accurate weather forecasts are about to become a real possibility around the world thanks to a new release from Nvidia.
The computing giant has announced a new digital twin cloud platform that will help meteorologists and weather experts create richer and more detailed simulations and more.
The new Earth-2 APIs, unveiled at Nvidia GTC 2024, could be used to address the cost of $140 billion in losses around the world due to extreme weather caused by climate change, with Nvidia saying work is now underway “unprecedented scale” can begin. “.
Whatever the weather
“Climate disasters are now commonplace: historic droughts, catastrophic hurricanes and generational floods appear in the news with alarming frequency,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Earth-2 cloud APIs aim to help us better prepare for – and inspire us to take action against – extreme weather.”
Nvidia says the new models will be used by governments and organizations around the world, including the Taiwan Central Weather Administration, which aims to better detect typhoon landfalls, with previous predictions of such incidents ensuring citizens can be evacuated more quickly.
The Earth-2 cloud APIs will run on Nvidia DGX Cloud, making them accessible to all kinds of users to create high-resolution simulations.
They use a new generative AI model from Nvidia called CorrDiff, which is capable of generating 12.5 times higher resolution images than current numerical models, 1000x faster and 3000x more energy efficient, and correcting inaccuracies from previous models, allowing multiple sources of information are brought together to make much more accurate and targeted predictions.