> talking with some people still in the field it seems that these organizations (NOAA, ECMWF) are stuck with NWP and refuse to embrace AI models This is trivial

> talking with some people still in the field it seems that these organizations (NOAA, ECMWF) are stuck with NWP and refuse to embrace AI models This is trivially verifiable as not true. ECMWF is all over AI: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/178/news/aifs-new-ecmwf-forecasting-system https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/178/news/aifs-new-ecmwf-... https://github.com/ecmwf-lab/ai-models https://github.com/ecmwf-lab/ai-models And they are hiring with competitive salaries (for Europe).