There’s a new AI model family on the block, and it’s one of the few that can be reproduced from scratch. On Tuesday, Ai2, the nonprofit AI research organization founded by the late Paul Allen, released OLMo 2, the second family of models in its OLMo series. (OLMo’s short for “Open Language Model.”) While there’s […]
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Ask anyone in the open source AI community, and they will tell you the gap between them and the big private companies is more than just computing power. AI2 is working to fix that, first with fully open source databases and models, and now with an open and easily adapted post-training regimen to turn “raw”
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The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of top-tier researchers, are the only ones that can make state-of-the-art foundation model. But as one among them famously noted, they “have no moat” — and AI2 showed that today with the release of Molmo, a multimodal AI
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All generative AI models hallucinate, from Google’s Gemini to Anthropic’s Claude to the latest stealth release of OpenAI’s GPT-4o. The models are unreliable narrators in other words — sometimes to hilarious effect, other times problematically so. But not all models make things up at the same rate. And the kinds of mistruths they spout depend
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