AI world model for simulating the Earth system

Whether forest fires, floods or droughts: a new artificial intelligence (AI) project at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) promises a game-changer for more precise, faster and more energy-efficient predictions of such events in a changing climate. In the “WOW – a world model of our world” project, researchers will develop an AI world model that combines several specialized AI sub-models through shared “latent spaces”. Overall, this will provide a completely new approach to simulating the highly complex climate system across all scales, from changing global weather patterns to local impacts. The Carl Zeiss Foundation is funding the project with six million euros.

Climate change is already changing global weather patterns and ecosystems around the world. In the long term, the consequences could range from further…