2025-12-16
Fresh off releasing the latest version of its Olmo foundation model, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) launched its open-source video model, Molmo 2, on Tuesday, aiming to show that smaller, open models can be viable options for enterprises focused on video understanding and analysis.
In a press release, the company said Molmo 2 “takes Molmo’s strengths in grounded vision and expands them to video and multi-image understanding,” a capability that has largely been dominated by larger proprietary models.
Ai2 released three variants of Molmo 2:
Molmo 2 8B, a Qwen-3–based mod [...]
2025-11-20
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) hopes to take advantage of an increased demand for customized models and enterprises seeking more transparency from AI models with its latest release.Ai2 made the late [...]
2025-12-12
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) [...]
2025-12-15
Enterprises that want tokenizer-free multilingual models are increasingly turning to byte-level language models to reduce brittleness in noisy or low-resource text. To tap into that niche — and make [...]
2025-10-24
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded [...]
2025-11-06
Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has e [...]
2025-12-02
Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smart [...]
2025-11-26
It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.No, today the Germ [...]
2025-11-12
Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several visio [...]