China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system

China said it can now predict weather 10 days in advance at a cutting-edge resolution of 5km (3. 1 miles), finer than most major systems in routine use around the world.

The advance was achieved by a Chinese-developed weather forecasting model running on Sugon 8,000, a massive home-grown computing system built entirely with domestically made AI chips. Most major global forecasting systems have resolutions of roughly…