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February 10, 2026
How NVIDIA's Earth-2 Uses AI to Accurately Predict Weather
NVIDIA's Earth-2 is the world’s first production-grade, fully open, accelerated weather AI software stack with improved accuracy and faster processing.
TL;DR
- NVIDIA's Earth-2 is an open-access initiative applying AI to the entire weather forecasting pipeline.
- It ingests vast observational data in real-time, generating localized forecasts quickly and cost-effectively.
- Earth-2 provides an open stack integrating various weather AI capabilities, from current conditions to long-range predictions.
- It accelerates forecasting stages, reducing processing times from hours to seconds by running on GPUs.
- The platform includes models like Earth-2 Medium Range for 15-day forecasts and Earth-2 Nowcasting for short-term storm predictions.
- Early users like the Israel Meteorological Service and energy companies are reporting significant improvements in compute reduction and forecast accuracy.
- NVIDIA is making Earth-2 available through platforms like NVIDIA Earth2Studio, GitHub, and Hugging Face to encourage global collaboration.
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