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Apr 1, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Google Open‑Sources TimesFM: A Foundation Model for Plug‑and‑Play Time‑Series Forecasting

Google’s open‑source TimesFM is a decoder‑only Transformer foundation model that delivers plug‑and‑play time‑series forecasting with zero‑shot accuracy, larger context windows, quantile predictions, and a simple Hugging Face API, making it suitable for retail, energy, finance, monitoring, and IoT use cases.