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Ai2 Launches OlmoEarth: Foundation Models and Open Infrastructure to Tackle the Planet’s Biggest Problems

Built on Ai2’s planet-scale Earth AI models, OlmoEarth Platform unlocks access to real-time earth data and insights to enable organizations to build solutions in service of people and the ...Full Article

Ai2 Launches Asta, an Open Agentic Ecosystem for Science

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has introduced Asta, a new AI platform that combines an agentic research assistant, a benchmark suite for evaluating scientific agents, and developer resources ...Full Article

Ai2 Launches Asta: A New Standard for Trustworthy AI Agents in Science

SEATTLE, Aug. 26, 2025 -- Ai2 (The Allen Institute for AI) today launched Asta, an integrated, open ecosystem designed to transform how science is done with AI agents. At a ...Full Article

Penn and Ai2 Release 400K Synthetic Images to Advance AI’s Visual Reasoning

Aug. 18, 2025 -- In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels — essential for AI to operate independently in ...Full Article

NSF, NVIDIA Partner in $152M Ai2-Led Project to Build Open AI Models for US Science

Aug. 14, 2025 -- The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop a set of artificial intelligence models that will transform the ability of America's ...Full Article

Ai2 Launches Tülu3-405B Model, Scales Reinforcement Learning for Open Source AI

This week, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) launched Tülu3-405B, a massive 405-billion parameter open source AI model claimed to outperform DeepSeek-V3 and match GPT-4o in key benchmarks, particularly ...Full Article

Databricks’ $1.3B MosaicML Buyout: A Strategic Bet on Generative AI

Databricks is the latest company to place a large bet – to the tune of $1.3 billion – on generative AI. On the first day of its sold-out Data + ...Full Article