🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing

Latent Space · 1 month ago · 30

Anima Anandkumar built FourCastNet after early skepticism about using AI for open-source weather prediction, and her team produced a model competitive with physics-based simulations in about a year. The work enables accurate short-timescale weather prediction using consumer-grade GPUs. The result shifts AI progress in physical science from scaling token-based transformers toward models that embed physical structure through neural operators and other inductive biases.