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Microsoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and more


One of Microsoft's latest AI models can accurately predict air quality, hurricanes, typhoons, and other weather-related phenomena, the company claims.

In a paper published in the journal Nature and an accompanying blog post this week, Microsoft detailed Aurora, which the tech giant says can forecast atmospheric events with greater precision and speed than traditional meteorological approaches. Google DeepMind has released a handful over the past several years, including WeatherNext, which the lab claims beats some of the world’s best forecasting systems. The model also bested the National Hurricane Center in forecasting five-day tropical cyclone tracks for the 2022-2023 season, and successfully predicted the 2022 Iraq sandstorm.

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