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System

GenCast

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a forecast that comes as a spread of possible futures, because weather is uncertain

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell is infer × L1. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

Runs at: datacenter. Evidence: benchmark.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointGenCastnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

64Simulating the Worldact XIV · AI for Science

Where it comes from

paperProbabilistic Weather Forecasting with Machine LearningPrice et al., Google DeepMind · 2024

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 1
is an instance ofNeural weather modelModel
Flow · 1
usesDiffusion modelArchitecture

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