Comment by avecchi-sorc

> There are massive avenues of scientific research which rely on a fully-assimilated and reconciled, corrected, consistent analysis of atmospheric conditions.

That’s a good point! In fact, the outputs for observation based foundational models will likely include a "reanalysis-like" step for the final output.

Regarding the next 6-12 months, we will be integrating our data with traditional NWP models and utilizing AI for forecasting. We've developed a compact AI model that can directly assimilate our "ground truth" data with reanalysis, specifically for use in AI forecasting models.

Once we have hundreds of systems deployed, we'll use the collected observations, combined with historical publicly available data, to train a foundational model that will directly predict specific variables based on raw observations.