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Our team is one of eight selected nationally for the inaugural Moonshots program of the Laude Institute, for a project titled “Actionable AI Weather Forecasts for Developing Economies” led by statistician and computer scientist Rebecca Willett with Nobel laureate economist Michael Kremer, computer scientist Ian Foster, and me. The people who most need a good weather forecast often have the least access to one. We will combine AI weather and climate models with data from developing countries, build software that lets any country plug in its own observations, and create benchmarks so that forecasts can be compared fairly across countries. The eight teams now have six months to turn their seed grants into full proposals for a $10M multi-year Moonshot Lab, to be decided in October. The award is covered by Forbes and UChicago News.