Boffins at IBM and NASA have concocted an AI model to help predict the weather, but this time it is taking on space weather that might disrupt satellites and spacecraft, possibly even terrestrial power grids and the internet.

IBM's hope is that the model has learned enough of the Sun's behavior so that it is able to generate actionable insights – in other words, warn of impending danger

Big Blue and the US space agency are open sourcing their latest AI model, named Surya, the Sanskrit word for the Sun. This has been developed to predict the kind of violent solar flare-ups that can send a torrent of charged particles toward the Earth, potentially damaging electronic infrastructure.

A famous example of solar activity causing havoc is the Carrington Event of 1859, when a geomagnetic storm

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