When Hurricane Beryl was rushing across the Atlantic basin in July, the weather forecasting tool made by Google Deepmind, the tech company’s artificial intelligence unit, saw something other models missed. Deepmind’s AI-driven program, called GraphCast, forecast the storm would take a sharp turn away from southern Mexico to southern Texas nearly a week earlier than conventional forecasts did — and it was right.
The dramatic prediction shows the promise of new AI-driven weather models amid a destructive hurricane season that also featured Helene and Milton. With the season winding down, meteorological agencies and tech companies