# Google’s TimesFM-3 pulls weather, promotions and 11 more signals into a single forecast

Hand the older model a promotions calendar and nothing happens. Hand TimesFM-3 the same calendar and it starts penciling in roughly 20 percent more units sold on every promotion day. That difference is the entire case for the forecasting model Google Research just released, and it is a narrower case

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| Published | 12 September 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/googles-timesfm-3-pulls-weather-promotions-and-11-more-signals-into-a-single-forecast/