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Ai2 Brings $152M Federally Backed AI Computing Cluster Online
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) said Thursday that its federally backed AI computing cluster is now online, marking the first milestone of a $152 million program to build open AI models for scientific research. The project, called the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure for Science (NSF OMAI), is backed by the U.S. National Science Foundation […]
Ai2’s MolmoAct 2 Is the Open Robot Model Built for the Real World
In the race to build robots that can work reliably in the physical world, proprietary models have held a clear advantage. However, that edge is narrowing. The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) on Thursday released its next-generation MolmoAct model, which outperforms popular rival, Physical Intelligence’s (PI) π0.5, across simulations, zero-shot real-world tasks, and third-party evaluations. […]
Ai2 Launches MolmoWeb to Challenge Closed Web Agents with Open Source
The race to build AI agents that can actually use the web is no longer confined to Big Tech or Big AI. On Tuesday, the Allen Institute for AI stepped into the arena with MolmoWeb, an open visual web agent designed to navigate and control a browser much like a human would. Paired with MolmoWebMix—a […]
Ai2 Rethinks Robotics Training With a Simulation-First Approach to Physical AI
Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) say they’ve achieved a breakthrough in physical AI: zero-shot sim-to-real transfer. This milestone allows robotic models trained entirely in simulation to perform tasks in the real world without requiring any real-world data, making it significantly easier to move knowledge from virtual training to actual robots. To mark […]
Ai2 Launches AutoDiscovery to Analyze Datasets and Break Science’s Ideation Bottleneck
Scientific progress has long followed a familiar arc: form a hypothesis, design an experiment, test, and repeat. But when dealing with sprawling datasets, the bottleneck isn’t in collecting information. It’s deciding where to look. Ai2 is betting that artificial intelligence can automate that decision. The nonprofit AI lab has introduced AutoDiscovery, an open-source experimental tool […]
Ai2 Challenges the Status Quo in Coding Agents with SERA, an Open-Source Model Built for Specialization and Scale
Coding agents are everywhere. What was once a handful of experimental tools has become a crowded field spanning GitHub (Copilot), OpenAI (Codex), Google (Jules), Anthropic (Claude Code), AWS (Kiro), Vercel (v0), Salesforce (Agentforce Vibes), and a growing roster of startups, each promising to change how software gets written. Now, nonprofit AI lab Ai2 is entering […]
Ai2 Releases Molmo 2, an Open Video Model That Outperforms Qwen 3, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro While Knowing Where the Action Happens
Ai2 has unveiled Molmo 2, the latest iteration of its open-source vision-language model (VLM). Arriving over a year after the original, this state-of-the-art update brings the most notable upgrades yet: support for multiple images and video, and grounding. The next-generation Molmo can now count and track objects or actions within videos. And just like its […]
Ai2’s Olmo 3 Offers Advanced Reasoning and Larger Context Windows Without High Costs
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) is rolling out its third-generation open language model, promising top-tier performance without the steep energy demands or hefty infrastructure price tag. The nonprofit AI lab states that the new system, Olmo 3, provides developers with “full visibility and control” across every stage of training, checkpoint, and dataset. “Olmo […]
Ai2’s OlmoEarth Opens the Door to Accessible, Open-Source Earth AI
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is announcing the release of OlmoEarth, a new platform featuring an open multimodal foundation model pre-trained on approximately 10 terabytes of global satellite and sensor data. Developers can utilize this AI to gain a better understanding of what’s happening to our planet, as it democratizes access to insights that […]
Ai2’s Asta DataVoyager Makes Complex Data Analysis Accessible to All Scientists
Ai2 is expanding its Asta toolkit with a new addition aimed at helping scientists navigate complex data. The release of Asta DataVoyager makes analyzing any amount of structured data more accessible, thanks to this open-source data analysis offering. All researchers need to do is upload a dataset and ask their questions using natural language. Then, […]