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Earth-2

by NVIDIAUS

Give weather services, utilities and insurers a complete, open AI forecasting system they can run on their own GPUs, so fast, accurate forecasts no longer need hours on a national supercomputer.

DeployStage 4 of 5

Open models since Jan 2026: 15-day global, 0–6 h storm nowcasts, and HealDA starting states.

Updated 16 Mar 2026Checked 11 Oct0 updates this week

Milestones

Next · Weather services and energy firms evaluate and adopt the models
  1. Earth-2 cloud platform and CorrDiff model launched at GTC18 Mar 2024Complete.
  2. Open Medium Range (Atlas) and Nowcasting (StormScope) models26 Jan 2026Complete.
  3. HealDA data-assimilation model released16 Mar 2026Complete.
  4. Weather services and energy firms evaluate and adopt the modelsNowCurrent milestone.

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