Nvidia's AI-Powered Earth-2 Platform Simulates Weather and Climate at High Resolution
Nvidia, led by Jensen Huang, is developing Earth-2, an AI-powered platform that simulates and visualizes weather and climate conditions at high resolution. The project combines artificial intelligence, GPU computing, physical simulations, and geospatial visualization to create a digital twin of the planet.
Earth-2 began as Nvidia's effort to make high-resolution climate simulation more accessible using its accelerated computing technology. The company formally announced Earth-2 in 2024 as a system for simulating and visualizing weather and climate from global atmosphere down to local phenomena such as cloud cover, typhoons, and turbulence.
The platform brings together AI models, GPU-accelerated physical simulations, observational data, and visualization tools. Nvidia's research programme covers several parts of the Earth-system modelling process, including atmospheric-state estimation, generative data assimilation, high-resolution weather simulation, and hybrid physics-AI modeling.