Google DeepMind published research in Nature showing its WeatherNext model outperforms prior cyclone forecasts by roughly 24 hours of lead time. Alongside the paper, the company is open-sourcing three model variants — WeatherNext Cyclones, WeatherNext 2 and the compact WeatherNext 2-mini — under an Apache 2.0 license. The smallest version can run on a single TPU inside a free Google Colab notebook, meaning students with no institutional computing budget can experiment with a state-of-the-art cyclone model today. We hope that, together with the research community, we can find out,” WeatherNext team at Google DeepMind wrote. Source: Google DeepMind