Overview
- Google has begun upgrading Pixel Weather to the new AI system, saying it delivers better results for 99.9% of variables across the next 0–15 days.
- WeatherNext 2 provides hourly-resolution forecasts up to two weeks for temperature, pressure and wind.
- DeepMind reports that each forecast scenario runs in about one minute on a single TPU using its Functional Generative Network method.
- The model was used during this year’s North Atlantic hurricane season and now extends tropical cyclone track prediction to three days.
- Outputs are starting to appear in Google Search and Gemini, with Google Maps slated to add richer in‑app weather data, though timing and interface details are not yet specified.