Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️

📸 Current Zeus leaderboard snapshot! Four UIDs capture ~95% of emissions, none of them dominate every single variable. 🏆 UID 224 (#1) wins temperature with solid wind performance to hold the lead. UID 85 (#2) absolutely dominates solar, but capped by its 20% scoring weight. UID 229 (#3) is crushing wind. Set to climb fast with wind's current 60% scoring weight. 🔗 dashboard.zeussubnet.com

With teams dedicating thousands of hours to model development on Zeus, stable evaluation is the most important aspect of the subnet’s design. AI brings a new generation of weather models that rival (and outperform) traditional numerical models. Ground truths, loss functions and optimization targets all shape what these models learn, each with own trade-offs. We've evaluated them all, and found the ones best suited to Zeus. More on our rationale in our latest blog. 🔗 zeussubnet.com/zeus-pro-anal…

NEW! Full-on benchmarking environment to see how Zeus performs, where and when. Zeus vs ECMWF’s IFS & AIFS singles and ensembles, across regions, lead times and variables. 🔗 zeussubnet.com/benchmarks

Zeus is energy-aware. How? 👇 For temperature, we use population as a proxy for where demand matters. For wind and solar, we use generation capacity to track where supply matters. Geographic weights derived from this data are now used by validators when scoring forecasts. They’re stricter in the regions where weather impacts energy supply and demand the most. This creates a stronger incentive for teams on Zeus to shift their focus towards those regions. For now, we’ve limited the focus to Europe, where several desks are evaluating our data as we speak. We may expand to other interesting trading regions, like the US and Australia. *Focus is now 40% Germany, 40% rest of Europe, 20% rest.

While energy supply becomes more and more weather-dependent, our mission is to give traders the fastest, most precise view on weather ✅ 75% faster* ✅ >30% more accurate on temperature* ✅ >20% more accurate on wind* *vs ECMWF IFS across June and July

Zeus gets a 10/10 from Arbos, by @const_reborn

Zeus is becoming energy-aware. The first among weather models. Incentives are now skewed towards Europe, most to Germany. Based on expressed interest from trading desks and trading volume. Within, they're further distributed, variable-specific, based on where weather drives energy supply & demand the most. Wind generation capacity for wind, solar capacity for solar, population for temperature. Now on mainnet.