Post: China Launches Global AI Model to Enhance Meteorological Services

Doha: The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) has launched an open-source large language model-based AI meteorological service system, making it available to developers and researchers to expand its use in weather applications and foster innovation in the field. According to Qatar News Agency, the announcement was made at a meteorological sub-forum of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in east China's Shanghai. The CMA added that the model has been trained on 50 million tokens of meteorological service data and integrated with authoritative weather datasets to support weather forecasting, risk assessment, and meteorological services. The model provides personalized weather information, service recommendations, and risk alerts for users in China. Its international version has also been incorporated into the United Nations' Early Warnings for All initiative, offering weather consultation and risk analysis services in Chinese and English.