China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system

China's Sugon 8,000 computing system, built with 100,000 domestically made AI chips, now predicts weather 10 days in advance at a 5km (3.1-mile) resolution, according to a joint announcement Tuesday by the China Meteorological Administration and Beijing-based Sugon. The resolution is finer than most major global forecasting systems, which typically run at 5km to 10km, including the US National Weather Service's Global Forecast System at about 13km.

Advertisement China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system The Sugon 8,000 system can predict weather 10 days in advance, bringing the country closer to its ambitious forecasting goals 2-MIN READ2-MIN Ling Xin https://www.scmp.com/author/ling-xin in Ohio China said it can now predict weather 10 days in advance at a cutting-edge resolution of 5km 3.1 miles , finer than most major systems in routine use around the world. The advance was achieved by a Chinese-developed weather forecasting model running on Sugon 8,000, a massive home-grown computing system built entirely with domestically made AI chips https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3360328/chinas-optical-chip-breakthrough-boosts-ai-speed-100-fold-using-fraction-compute-power?module=inline&pgtype=article . Most major global forecasting systems have resolutions of roughly 5km to 10km, according to the China Meteorological Administration and Beijing-based computing company Sugon, which jointly announced the results on Tuesday. For instance, the Global Forecast System – the main global weather model run by the US National Weather Service – has a maximum resolution of about 13km. Select Voice Select Speed 1x AI-generated voice