TAIPEI — As tropical storm Bebinca barrels towards waters off northern Taiwan gathering strength into a possible typhoon, weather forecasters in Taipei are using a new and so far successful method to help track its path — artificial intelligence (AI).

AI-generated forecasts, some powered by software from tech giants including Nvidia whose chips are made by Taiwan's homegrown semiconductor champion TSMC have so far outperformed traditional methods in predicting typhoon tracks.

In July, it was AI-based weather models, used for the first time, that helped Taiwan better predict the path and impact of Typhoon Gaemi, the strongest to strike the island in eight years that brought record-breaking rainfall.

The new technology impressed Taiwan forecasters by predicting a direct hit as early as eight days before Gaemi made landfall — handily outperforming conventional methods, which remain the mainstay of prediction planning.

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