AI in forecasting & planning: 16 real deployments

Using Confido agentic platform for deduction resolution, trade spend, forecasting, and supply-chain ops in retail sales planning

Using Confido agentic platform for deduction resolution, trade spend, forecasting, and supply-chain ops in retail sales planning

Using Confido agentic platform for deduction resolution, trade spend, forecasting, and supply-chain ops in retail sales planning

Using Confido agentic platform for deduction resolution, trade spend, forecasting, and supply-chain ops in retail sales planning

Using Confido agentic platform for deduction resolution, trade spend, forecasting, and supply-chain ops in retail sales planning

Operating AI weather model for hurricane track forecasting used in comparison against GFS and other physics-based models

Reported: Correctly forecast Hurricane Isaias striking the western Florida Panhandle while GFS and other physics-based models pointed toward Louisiana or Mississippi; Isaias came ashore near Destin as a Cat 2 with 100-105 mph winds

Deploying GraphCast AI model for hurricane and tropical-storm forecasting

Launched WeatherNext 3 AI weather model producing hourly forecasts at up to 5km resolution, integrated into Search, Maps, Gemini, and Earth Engine, with wind, cloud cover, and solar radiation forecasts to help grid operators plan renewable output

Reported: up to 60% more accurate rain predictions a day out

Using Google DeepMind's AI weather model operationally for hurricane track forecasting, shaping forecasts around its output

Reported: Model correctly forecast Hurricane Isaias striking the western Florida Panhandle while GFS and other physics-based models pointed elsewhere; Isaias came ashore near Destin as a Cat 2 with 100-105 mph winds; NHC meteorologists called it the best performing computer model we've ever seen

Tanzania integrated AI into its national disaster-management infrastructure to predict climate disasters, shifting a government of 65 million from reactive relief to prediction.

Using WeatherMesh 6 deep-learning model to forecast weather and operationally guide autonomous weather balloon fleet, including navigation into Typhoon Dolphin's eye

Reported: WeatherMesh 6 reportedly outperformed ECMWF's physics-based forecasts and steered a balloon into Typhoon Dolphin's eye in what the company calls a first for AI operational guidance of an unpowered aircraft

Purchasing atmospheric data from WindBorne Systems' roughly 700 AI-guided autonomous weather balloons under a contract worth up to $49M, with $1.7M already ordered

AI-focused hedge fund that concentrated bets on AI stocks using borrowed capital, peaking above $30B in assets before losing 67% of portfolio value in July and selling most public holdings to Citadel

Reported: lost 67% of portfolio value in July before selling most public holdings to Citadel

Insurance risk modelers Fathom and Verisk use AI diffusion models to synthesize realistic disaster scenarios at scale for catastrophe risk assessment and re/insurance pricing, bypassing the initial-condition data requirements of physics-based modeling.

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation launched a four-year $200M partnership putting Claude into global health, agriculture and learning, with the Institute for Disease Modeling integrating Claude into existing disease-forecasting workflows; first targets are polio, HPV and pre-eclampsia.

TVS Motors and Wells Vehicle Electronics are among 10+ beta customers running Amazon Connect Decisions, AWS's agentic supply chain product whose AI teammates detect invisible inventory patterns and make planning calculations autonomously, since late 2025.