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timesfm

Pretrained time-series foundation model for forecasting

AI/ML - Foundation ModelMountain View, United StatesPart of Google/AlphabetDecoder-only architecture for time-series forecastingTimesFM 2.5 with 200M parameters (down from 500M in v2.0)Supports up to 16k context length (up from 2048)Continuous quantile forecast up to 1k horizon via optional 30M quantile headNo frequency indicator requiredAvailable in PyTorch and Flax implementationsXReg support for covariate featuresIntegrated with BigQuery as official Google productHugging Face checkpoints available

Our Take

{"problem_it_solves": "Enables accurate time-series forecasting without requiring users to train models from scratch, supporting various forecasting horizons and contexts.", "target_customer": "Data scientists, ML engineers, researchers, and developers working on time-series forecasting tasks", "use_cases": ["Time-series forecasting", "Business forecasting", "Financial predictions", "Energy demand forecasting", "Any temporal prediction tasks"], "pricing_details": "Open source - Apache 2.0 license", "free_tier": "Yes - open source", "differentiator": "Google Research-backed foundation model with up to 16k context length and built-in quantile forecasting capabilities", "why_now": "Released September 2025 (v2.5), with ongoing development including Flax version for faster inference and expanded documentation", "traction": {"notable_metrics": "14.3k stars, 1.2k forks, 99 watchers, 301 commits", "press_mentions": ["Paper published at ICML 2024"]}}

Key Facts

Category
AI/ML - Foundation Model
Location
Mountain View, United States
Stage
Part of Google/Alphabet
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