Many forecasting or prediction problems involve time series data. That makes XGBoost an excellent companion for InfluxDB, the open source time series database.

Forecasting the future and filling the gaps: How Synthefy is reinventing time series intelligence with NetApp Synthefy is working with NetApp to enable context-aware, multi-modal forecasting ...

Attention is not all you need when forecasting with generative AI. You also need time. IBM recently made its open-source TinyTimeMixer model available on Hugging Face.