Silurian is an artificial intelligence company building foundation models to simulate the Earth's systems, beginning with weather and climate. Founded in 2024 by a team of researchers and engineers with backgrounds at Microsoft and Google DeepMind, the company aims to solve the planet's toughest weather problems by training large-scale generative models on atmospheric, land-surface, and infrastructure data. Its flagship Generative Forecasting Transformer (GFT) produces highly accurate, long-range weather predictions that the company says can outperform forecasts from U.S. and European government agencies.
The company's technology is designed around the idea that the same foundation-model approach that transformed language and vision can be applied to physical simulation of the Earth. By learning directly from vast volumes of observational and reanalysis data, Silurian's models can generate forecasts that refresh rapidly and capture complex, nonlinear dynamics that are difficult and expensive to resolve with traditional numerical weather prediction. This makes the system well suited to decision-making in sectors where timing and accuracy carry significant financial and safety consequences.
Silurian offers two primary lines of value to customers. First, it builds custom AI foundation models that leverage a client's existing proprietary data and infrastructure, allowing organizations to extract maximum value for their specific weather and climate challenges. Second, it provides rapidly refreshing, AI-powered regional weather forecasts that help clients anticipate and manage risk across energy, agriculture, insurance, logistics, aviation, and defense.
The founding team includes CEO Jayesh K. Gupta along with co-founders Cristian Bodnar, Mark Baum, and Nikhil Shankar, who bring expertise in machine learning, geometric deep learning, and atmospheric modeling. The company emerged from Y Combinator and has raised approximately $11 million to date to scale its models, expand its team, and commercialize its Earth intelligence platform for enterprise customers worldwide.