Alex Levy

Representative, Atmo · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Levy is associated with Atmo. He works on reengineering weather systems to help address global freshwater scarcity.

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7 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alex argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Levy: National Weather Service uses zero AI-powered forecasting models
“If you go on to the National Weather Service today, none of those models that you see there are AI powered.”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 9:26 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Everything Alex Levy said on Sourcery that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Levy: US civilian weather forecasting has fallen significantly behind global peers
“The U.S. On the civilian side has fallen significantly behind the rest of the world.”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 8:49 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Levy: National Weather Service uses zero AI-powered forecasting models
“If you go on to the National Weather Service today, none of those models that you see there are AI powered.”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 9:26 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Partly supported
Levy: Atmo provides AI weather models to all US space launch sites
“ATMO provides AI meteorology models to all the space launch sites in the United States.”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 27:50 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Levy: Atmo Operates Texas's Most Advanced Wind Forecasting Model for Hedge Funds
“Atmo now operates the most advanced wind forecasting model in Texas. Now today we're doing it primarily for hedge funds.”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 28:56 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2028
Levy: Atmo's AI weather models run 45,000x faster than numerical simulations
“Similarly, AI meteorology, like we're utilizing here, is, is now running, in our case together, about 45,000 times faster than numerical models of equal resolution so far, which allows us to do these things like consider the thousands of alternative scenarios …”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 37:48 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Levy: Atmo Upgraded Philippines Weather Forecasting Accuracy by 50%
“So most recently, we just completed an upgrade to the entire Philippines National Weather Service that increased their level of accuracy by as much as 50% and made it far more detailed than what they had before, which was quite important because they just had …”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 3:22 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Partly supported
Levy: Atmo Weather Models Offer 100x Higher Resolution Than NWS
“We've seen models that are up to a hundred times higher resolution. So to give you a sense, we're based in San Francisco, and if you took the National Weather Service model for San Francisco, it would treat that whole city Roughly on the order of nine pixels. …”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 4:12 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Levy: Texas wind power generates up to 45% of daily state output
“There are days where the wind power production in Texas is as much as 45% of daily output across Texas.”
Alex Levy Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 29:03 Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Mo Aug 15, 2025 15m
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