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Thursday, 9 July 2026

Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

Microsoft Research 1 week ago

Microsoft released Aurora 1.5, an open-source Earth-system foundation model that expands the original Aurora with 22 additional weather variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting capabilities for applications in energy, agriculture, and climate risk. Aurora 1.5's ensemble forecasts outperform the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on 88.9% of evaluated targets and reduced tropical cyclone track errors by roughly one-third compared to the original model. The model is available on GitHub and Hugging Face for researchers while also being integrated into Microsoft Weather services and enterprise solutions through partnerships like BKW for operational weather forecasting.

Foundation Models Microsoft Open Source Weather & Climate

SensorFM: Towards a general intelligence and interface for wearable health data

Google Research 1 week ago

Google researchers developed SensorFM, a foundation model trained on over one trillion minutes of unlabeled wearable sensor data from five million participants to create a general-purpose representation of human physiology. The model achieved 31% lower reconstruction loss than smaller variants and outperformed supervised baselines on 34 of 35 health prediction tasks spanning cardiovascular, metabolic, sleep, and mental health domains. This approach enables a single reusable model to adapt across diverse health outcomes rather than requiring separate bespoke models for each condition.

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