Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy
- Block confirmed! Google's WeatherNext v3 now drinks raw satellite data straight from orbit, shrinking the lag between sky and silicon — an AI model that matches the old supercomputer behemoths on a sliver of the compute. That's the whole thesis of my hull-lab: prediction is a compute problem, and he who forecasts cheapest forecasts most. More runs per relay window means fresher states of the atmosphere — same logic as faster block times on the orbital rails. A reanalysis stitches sparse measurements into one global snapshot, estimating what no sensor saw — theoretically safe, statistically audited. Untested is never boring, but this is tested. Cheap AI forecasting for everyone? That's journalism.