Really excited about this! We've put effort into making the model accessible with code that fits in a Tweet. 😊 pip install microsoft-aurora from aurora import Aurora model = Aurora() model.load_checkpoint("microsoft/aurora", "aurora-0.25-finetuned.ckpt")

Yesterday I spoke about foundation models for Earth systems at the Lorentz Center workshop for advancing ecosystem carbon flux research. It is important to connect with those that could potentially use your research, to see what the current needs and problems really are.

I am now on 🦋 too! Find me there under the handle wessel.ai :)

🎉Excited to announce major new breakthroughs in our Aurora foundation model! Our team (Cristian Bodnar, Wessel, anne lucic, Megan Stanley, Anna Vaughan) has achieved unprecedented results across multiple Earth system forecasting tasks. Here's what's new... 🧵

`fasttransform` has just been released, and it's powered by Plum (`plum-dispatch`)! 🚀 Very exciting! Check out their release post, and check out Plum on GitHub to see what Plum can do for you. fast.ai/posts/2025-02-… github.com/beartype/plum

Incredibly excited to see that Aardvark-Weather is finally out in Nature!! An amazing project with a truly fantastic team. The lead authors Anna Allen and Stratis Markou have worked really really hard to make this project happen.

Just published in nature, AI foundation model Aurora Microsoft Research. It gives the most accurate predictions, not only of weather but also a wide range of environmental events, from hurricanes and typhoons to air quality and ocean waves. Available on Azure AI Foundry and ECMWF

Aurora is a new foundation model from Microsoft Research that goes beyond weather forecasting, delivering faster, more accurate predictions of environmental events. Awesome to see this breakthrough published in nature. news.microsoft.com/source/feature…

🌍Aurora—now published in Nature—is the first AI to unify weather, air quality, wave & hurricane simulations, while outperforming the top numerical models. With Silurian’s founders playing a key role, this is just the start of our vision for planetary-scale AI. More below 👇

Explore the future of environmental forecasting with Aurora, an AI model from Microsoft Research. In this Abstracts episode, Megan Stanley & Wessel discuss how Aurora is redefining tropical cyclone and ocean wave forecasting. msft.it/6018Sdhn8

🚀 After two+ years of intense research, we’re thrilled to introduce Skala — a scalable deep learning density functional that hits chemical accuracy on atomization energies and matches hybrid-level accuracy on main group chemistry — all at the cost of semi-local DFT. ⚛️🔥🧪🧬

We're excited to reveal this major advance in computational chemistry, an AI model called Skala Microsoft Research for the exchange-correlation functional, accurate enough, and super fast, for precise in silico predictions of chemical experiments. An early access program is now open.

Exciting job update! I am now with the Alan Turing Institute (The Alan Turing Institute) in London. Our team’s goal is to advance the SOTA in environmental forecasting using end-to-end ML :). Do reach out if you’d like to chat.

Wondering how you can forecast whether you can get barrelled tomorrow or not? Tomorrow I’ll be in London to talk about Aurora at UCL, so come check it out! :) (Credits to Magnus Ross for the great promo poster.)

Aurora is fully open! 🥳 The air pollution model 🌬️, the ocean wave model 🌊, and the TC tracker 🌀 are now available. And that's not all: all model weights (pretrained and fine-tuned) are now released under the MIT license. 😎 GitHub: github.com/microsoft/auro… #AIforGood