This AI Weather Startup's Forecasts Are Now Beating Government Agencies
AI News Brief: WindBorne’s edge comes from owning both ends of the pipeline — data collection and model building. The company currently launches weather balloons from 15 locations worldwide, with roughly 400 balloons airborne at any given moment, capturing real-time atmospheric sensor data. The real driver behind its latest forecasting model’s accuracy gains isn’t a bigger model architecture — it’s a better way of feeding balloon data into the model, meaning improvements to data preprocessing and assimilation.