Ravuri, Suman https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7481-7633
Lenc, Karel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6119-0045
Willson, Matthew https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8730-1927
Kangin, Dmitry https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9769-7585
Lam, Remi
Mirowski, Piotr
Fitzsimons, Megan
Athanassiadou, Maria
Kashem, Sheleem
Madge, Sam
Prudden, Rachel
Mandhane, Amol https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3412-2634
Clark, Aidan
Brock, Andrew
Simonyan, Karen
Hadsell, Raia
Robinson, Niall
Clancy, Ellen
Arribas, Alberto
Mohamed, Shakir https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1184-5776
Article History
Received: 17 February 2021
Accepted: 27 July 2021
First Online: 29 September 2021
Competing interests
: S.R., K.L., M.W., R.L., P.M., S.K., A.M., A.C., A.B., K.S., R.H., E.C. and S.M., are employees of DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., and own Alphabet stock. D.K., M.F., R.P., M.A., S.M., S.A., N.R. and A.A. were employees of the UK Met Office during the entirety of this research. A.A. contributed to this research while at the Met Office and is now at Microsoft. Provisional patent 63/150,509 was filed covering the generative algorithm described in this paper, listing the authors S.R., K.L., M.J.W., R.L. and P.M as inventors. The authors declare no other competing interests related to the manuscript.