Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI

Google Research · 27 August 2026, 17:37

Google introduced the Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE) within Google Earth AI, an experimental system that autonomously runs the full geospatial modeling workflow from natural-language queries. It reports improving US CDC public-health indicator prediction to a mean R² of 76.8% versus 60.0% for a manual expert pipeline. As a result, model building time is reduced from weeks with manual data engineering to minutes, and the system can generate benchmark improvements without manual intervention across multiple prediction tasks.

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