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WindBorne Systems

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WindBorne Systems

@WindBorneWx

Creating weather certainty. We fuse unparalleled data from our constellation of smart, long-duration sensing balloons with state-of-the-art AI forecasts.

Palo Alto, CA

Joined June 2023

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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Jul 13, 2025
From launching weather balloons out of a beat-up Subaru to outperforming European weather models by 37% 📈 Read about how we built WindBorne into the future of weather prediction (spoiler: AI + really good balloons) nytimes.com/2025/07/13/bus… @nytimes @NOAA @TimFernholz
The Future of Weather Prediction Is Here. Maybe.
From nytimes.com
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Oct 15, 2025
We are honored to share that WindBorne Atlas was named one of @TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025. This recognition represents more than an award since it validates our mission to transform weather forecasting through innovative data collection technology. Here's to building a
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Jun 3, 2024
Let’s talk about the weather 🌤️ It turns out it’s a drastically underutilized tool in tackling climate change. But weather prediction hasn’t experienced a step-change transformation in decades. Yet we talk about it all the time – hurricanes 🌀, wildfires 🔥, extreme heat 🥵,
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Jan 16, 2025
Weather prediction just got better. Announcing WeatherMesh-2 (WM-2), the industry-leading sequel to our record-breaking global AI forecasting model. Some new WM-2 records: • 8% to 24% more accurate than gold standard operational models such as GFS, HRES, and Google
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
May 28, 2025
Here’s a launch video straight from our Alaska ops - #Veo3 could never. (Rooster sounds included for your ASMR pleasure)
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Oct 10, 2024
Thank you to all who joined for our first @a16z @Techweek_ balloon launch at our newly expanded Palo Alto, Calif. manufacturing / R&D space and headquarters. 🚀🎈 Our cofounder & CTO Andrey Sushko launched one of our autonomous, long-duration atmospheric balloons with MC’ing by
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Mar 22, 2024
Uiseong, South Korea is the country’s garlic capital, known for a special strain of black garlic. It’s also the site of hundreds of dinosaur tracks from 100 million years ago.🦖 Another fun fact: it’s home to one of our permanent, global launch sites. @WindBorneWx balloons
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Feb 14, 2024
“A team of @Stanford graduates in their 20s has overtaken tech giants like Huawei, Nvidia, and Google DeepMind in the competitive field of using artificial intelligence to predict the weather.” semafor.com/article/02/14/… @semafor's @ReedAlbergotti unpacks our path to building the
Little-known startup takes the AI weather prediction crown
From semafor.com
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Jun 18, 2024
"AI-based weather models from tech giants such as Google DeepMind, Huawei, and Nvidia are now consistently beating the standard physics-based models for the first time. And it’s not just the big names getting into the game — earlier this year, the 27-person team at Palo
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Feb 14, 2024
Introducing WindBorne WeatherMesh ☼ ༄ The most intelligent weather model, where the most accurate global forecasts meet the Earth’s most sustainable sensing network. WindBorne’s groundbreaking AI is reinventing weather prediction for a new era of smarter decision-making,
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Feb 28, 2025
The suspension of balloon operations at the National Weather Service's Kotzebue site will create significant weather forecasting challenges in the already underobserved Arctic region, but WindBorne Systems plans to help by launching long-duration Global Sounding Balloons from a
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Feb 18, 2025
(1/4) Coming soon… WindBorne Trader 🎉🎉 Delivering faster, more accurate weather insights for energy traders.
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Jun 2, 2025
haha balloon printer go brrrrrrrrr (sound on)
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WindBorne Systems
@WindBorneWx
Jun 27, 2024
We launched our first balloon flight – a “dev” launch – from our new Palo Alto campus this week. A few days in, much of our new manufacturing floor, flight control center, and electrical engineering R&D space are up-and-running.
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