NVIDIA Debuts Earth-2 AI Platform for Real-Time Extreme Weather Simulation

Details

• NVIDIA introduced the Earth-2 software stack at GTC Washington, D.C., 2025, aimed at powering digital twins for climate and weather.
• The new AI-powered models combine physics-informed neural networks with GPU-accelerated solvers, allowing global forecasts to run in under a minute compared to hours on supercomputers.
• Early demonstrations showed hurricanes and floods simulated at less than 2 km resolution on a single DGX H100 rack, with cloud access available through DGX Cloud and AWS GPU services.
• A built-in Omniverse connector streams interactive 4D visualizations to dashboards, enabling detailed exploration from continent scale down to individual city blocks.
• MITRE Corporation is the first external partner, incorporating Earth-2 into infrastructure resilience analytics for US federal agencies.
• NVIDIA's early-access program is now open, with a full SDK, container images, and pretrained models planned for release in early 2026.

Impact

NVIDIA’s platform could disrupt the dominance of traditional weather forecasting centers like ECMWF and NOAA, spurring competitors to accelerate their own AI weather initiatives. The substantial reduction in compute costs may bring high-resolution climate tools to insurers, agricultural groups, and global markets. If widely adopted, Earth-2 could become central to regulatory climate-risk compliance and help NVIDIA outpace hardware rivals AMD and Intel in the AI infrastructure race.