{"id":3076,"date":"2025-09-10T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climategpt.ai\/blog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:20:45","slug":"keynote-at-the-san-francisco-world-ai-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climategpt.ai\/blog\/2025\/09\/10\/keynote-at-the-san-francisco-world-ai-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote at the San Francisco- World AI Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daniel Erasmus keynoted the World AI Summit in San Francisco by presenting the team’s recent work building ClimateGPT 2, and ongoing efforts toward #3. The talk touched on the challenges of building small, outsized capable Large Language Models SLMs . These models democratise access, use less CO2 use per equivalent query and by focussing on a specific domain and enable fine grained corpora curation, accelerated development and task definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of ClimateGPT 1 and 2 this pioneering approach lead to a significant reduction in model size resulting in 12x less CO2 per response whilst maintaining knowledge across a range of benchmarks equivalent to models ten times the size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12x reduction in CO2 per query for equivalent results.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Daniel discussed the partnership between Club of Rome & ClimateGPT and the importance in grounding the model in the 5 interventions proposed by the Earth4All<\/a> report, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, forward looking technical & systemic breakthroughs, a decade of the effects of extreme weather events and core of climate change research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are not meteorological models. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are in the anthropocene and must get good at understanding how we, not just the weather- will change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ClimateGPT begins to describe the effects of climate change on human systems. Food insecurity, water stress, costly access to capital, migration, institutional failure, political upheaval, etc. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

View the Keynote or a Short Interview in the margins of the conference below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World AI Summit San Francisco: Short Interview (2.30min): <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World AI Summit San Francisco: Keynote (20min):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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