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Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world

The model, called Aurora, also forecasts global weather for ten days — all in less than a minute.
  1. Carissa Wong
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NOAA GEOS-East satellite image showing Hurricane Idalia, center, as it moves up the Gulf of Mexico and Hurricane Franklin, right, as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard of the Atlantic Ocean, August 29, 2023.

Weather forecasting is benefitting from the boom in artificial intelligence. Credit: NESDIS/STAR/NOAA/Alamy

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Microsoft can accurately forecast weather and air pollution for the whole world — and it does it in less than a minute.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01677-2

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  1. Bodnar, C. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.13063 (2024).

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