According to Bloomberg, the startup founded by former Google executives Brightband announced on Thursday (today) that it has secured a $10 million (currently about Rs. 70.895 million) Series AFinancingThe round was led by Prelude Ventures. The round was led by Prelude Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital's Future Back Ventures and Slack co-founder Carl Henderson.
The companyFormer Google executive Julian Green and three scientists.was founded this summer to improve weather forecasting using AI technology. The company aims to develop a paid product, as well as an open-source AI forecasting model trained on raw weather observations.
Amy McGowan, co-founder of Brightband and professor of computer science and meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, said in an interview that Brightband Will initially focus on predicting extreme weather behavior,includeHeat waves and tropical cyclonesThis will be accomplished several days earlier than traditional forecasts.
Over the past year, Google, Huawei and NVIDIA have introduced machine learning weather prediction models that can predict the weather in seconds, according to the report.Brightband will attempt to produce mid-range forecasts, which predict the weather 10 to 14 days in advance, using only theInformation gathered from historical weather observations, without using any physically based data to compensate for missing or unreliable measurement data.