{"id":618151,"date":"2026-09-16T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618151\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:40:11","slug":"china-uses-100000-home-grown-ai-chips-to-build-leading-weather-forecast-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618151\/","title":{"rendered":"China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3360328\/chinas-optical-chip-breakthrough-boosts-ai-speed-100-fold-using-fraction-compute-power?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI chips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Most major global forecasting systems have resolutions of roughly 5km to 10km, according to the China Meteorological Administration and Beijing-based computing company Sugon, which jointly announced the results on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For instance, the Global Forecast System \u2013 the main global weather model run by the US National Weather Service \u2013 has a maximum resolution of about 13km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China said it can now predict weather 10 days in advance at a cutting-edge resolution of 5km (3.1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,7927,343,344,5560,1657,279548,3388,279546,85,46,279545,46956,142985,279547,125,208],"class_list":["post-618151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-chips","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-china-meteorological-administration","tag-chinese","tag-global-forecast-system","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mesoscale-convective-vortex","tag-national-weather-service","tag-sugon","tag-sugon-8000","tag-technology","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}