TimesFM 2.5 vs Tinybird

TimesFM 2.5 is the latest update to Google Research's pretrained time-series foundation model — a 200M parameter decoder-only model that does zero-shot forecasting across virtually any time-series domain without needing to retrain or fine-tune. Released March 31, 2026, it expands context length to 16,000 time steps (up from earlier versions) and adds an optional 30M continuous quantile head for probabilistic forecasting up to 1,000 steps ahead. Unlike traditional forecasting approaches that require training a new model per dataset, TimesFM was pre-trained on 100 billion real-world time points across diverse domains. You point it at new data — retail sales, server metrics, energy demand, financial prices — and it forecasts without any additional training. The March 31 update also restores covariate (XReg) support and updates inference APIs for better integration. With 14,000 GitHub stars and trending today, TimesFM is becoming the default baseline for time-series work in the same way BERT became the baseline for NLP tasks. Google Cloud users get it directly via BigQuery ML's AI.FORECAST function. For everyone else, it's available on HuggingFace and installable as a Python package.

Tinybird lets you build real-time analytics APIs over streaming and batch data using SQL. Built on ClickHouse with instant API endpoints from SQL queries.