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TimesFM-3: A zero-shot foundation model for multivariate forecasting

Our short summary of Google’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Users needed accurate forecasts that consider many related signals, but existing models only used single series data.

Solution

They built TimesFM‑3, a 330‑million‑parameter transformer pre‑trained on over 1 trillion time points, that can forecast multiple series together in one pass without fine‑tuning.

Research behind this, on AI Papers DailyChronos-2: A foundation model for multivariate time series forecasting

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