Ai2 receives Google funding to develop open-source climate model NeuralGCM+
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With a multi-million-dollar three-year grant from Google.org and technical support from Google Research, Ai2 has launched a new climate modeling initiative to extend Google Research's NeuralGCM into the open-source model NeuralGCM+. Ai2 says the new model aims to make climate predictions faster and more reliable. Ai2 plans to build on NeuralGCM's existing open-source code and model weights to release the model and modeling framework, and to provide documented workflows that enable external researchers to train and tune the model and contribute code.
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- Allen Institute for AI BlogAi2 and Google collaborate on a new generation of climate models
Ai2 is launching a climate modeling initiative with multimillion-dollar, three-year funding from Google.org and technical support from Google Research to develop NeuralGCM+, an open-source model extending Google Research's NeuralGCM to simulate atmosphere and ocean together for faster, more reliable decade-scale climate projections. Ai2 will focus on climate trends over years to decades, such as how rainfall and water availability could change through mid-century in regions like the southwestern United States, while Google Research continues developing NeuralGCM for nearer-term forecasts over weeks to months. The work will proceed along three fronts: connecting the atmosphere and ocean, improving the response to a warming world, and making the tools easier to use and extend, including improved performance on widely used GPUs.
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