The Met Office responded by launching its AI for Numerical Weather Prediction programme, pulling together related work into a coherent research and development effort.
“ We realised the race had started and we had ground to make up,” Kirstine continues.“ We knew we couldn’ t do it alone.”
FastNet: AI at the heart of forecasting In October 2023, the Met Office formed a strategic partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’ s national centre for data science and AI, to co‐develop a new AI model called FastNet.
The Met Office runs one of the world’ s most advanced numerical weather prediction systems, powered by a
£ 1.2bn
supercomputing partnership with Microsoft
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