Ai2 releases HiRO-ACEv2 low-cost climate simulation system
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On 15 October 2026, Ai2 released HiRO-ACEv2, a new version of its HiRO-ACE system, on the Hugging Face Blog. According to the report, its downscaling model HiROv2 can predict multiple high-resolution meteorological fields at once and improves the reproduction of extreme rainfall, wind speed and pressure events, generating 3-kilometre global climate data at about 1/300 of the cost. So far this event has only this single first-hand report, with no supplementary or contradictory information from other sources.
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- Hugging Face BlogSelectedHiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost
🤗 Models | 📄 Paper | 📓 Tutorial notebooks | 🌎 Demo We introduce HiRO-ACEv2, the newest update to our High Resolution Output Ai2 Climate Emulator (HiRO-ACE) system.
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