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🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing

aired Aug 26, 2026 · 83.0m
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confidence 0.99
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Clty58.5
Summary

So we set out looking for interesting examples. And one of them was like weather modeling because the weather data is open source.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, that's, including: And one of them was like weather modeling because the weather data is open source.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And one of them was like weather modeling because the weather data is open source
  2. 02And that's very careful, bottom-up physics-based modeling, right?
  3. 03And so that's how a lot of the thinking was that AI is just not going to be able to beat the decades of work in weather modeling
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