Timestral, Chronos-2, TimesFM vs LightGBM, XGBoost and two simple baselines. Every model saw the same data and could not peek at the future. Everything ran on a CPU.
On electricity prices, the AI models won clearly. For every €100 the "same as yesterday" guess missed, Chronos-2 missed €68. LightGBM missed €86.
On train delays, it was a tie. Best AI model and best laptop-trained model: 0.07 minutes apart.
And when Frankfurt hit 61 minutes of average delay, every model predicted under 8. Nobody saw it coming.
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