Levy: Atmo's AI weather models run 45,000x faster than numerical simulations
Alex Levy · Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Aug 15, 2025 · at 37:48
Alex Levy, CEO of Atmo, explains how neural network weather prediction compares computationally to classical physics simulations used in cloud seeding with Rainmaker.
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“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 and plans that, you know, Rainmaker could go out there and do, and evaluate this whole swath of them.”
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