China turns to local AI labs top beef up extreme weather monitoring

China has found a new route in its push to become a global AI powerhouse as the country’s weather agency and research institutes have put domestically built AI models at the frontline of its typhoon monitoring and forecasting system. 

Asia’s largest economy also already has its eyes on expansion routes as it is now planning to spread the AI systems already in use in the country to other developing countries, especially those at extreme weather risk in the Asia-Pacific.

China is building an AI weather system for the world 

While China itself was the first customer of its domestic AI weather labs, the country has also signaled an ambition to allow them to spread across the world, potentially becoming the global standard. 

According to a Xinhua report carried by the State Council Information Office, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) introduced the Fenghe weather services large language model at this year’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai as a global open-source project. 

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