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AI makes weather forecasting better – can WindBorne make it profitable?
WindBorne Systems, a startup using long-distance weather balloons and AI weather models for forecasting, has raised $37 million in Series B funding. The company uses deep learning to run weather simulations on portable devices instead of supercomputers, and is now seeking to build commercial demand among investors and businesses that use weather data for decision-making.
WHY IT MATTERS
AI techniques are making weather forecasting significantly cheaper and more accessible to private actors, opening up new commercial use cases beyond public weather institutions. This could reshape the weather data market if integrating forecasts into business decisions becomes easier through AI tools.
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