AI2
AI2 is a research organization that develops open-weight AI models, evaluation tools, and domain-specific platforms. Recent work includes releasing the Olmo language model and OlmoEarth geospatial platform, creating evaluation benchmarks like IFBench and olmo-eval, developing vision-language models such as MolmoPoint, and building specialized AI agents for maritime awareness and environmental monitoring across protected areas globally.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Release activity
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Mar 2025 → Jul 2026
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Latest developments
Tracing distinctive language in AI-written text
Allen Institute (AI2) · 3 days ago ·
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The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale
Allen Institute (AI2) · 6 days ago ·
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Who gets to understand AI?
Allen Institute (AI2) · 1 week ago ·
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Predictive Data Debugging
The Neuron · 2 weeks ago ·
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What building Shippy taught us about building agents
Allen Institute (AI2) · 3 weeks ago ·
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How Domyn and AISquared built on Ai2's open releases
Allen Institute (AI2) · 1 month ago ·
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olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop
Allen Institute (AI2) · 1 month ago ·
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How open model ecosystems compound
Interconnects · 2 months ago ·
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July 2026
Allen Institute releases OlmoEarth Platform for large-scale geospatial inference using satellite data Product launch
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model competing with frontier American systems Model release
Allen Institute releases Shippy, an AI agent for maritime domain awareness Product launch
- Tracing distinctive language in AI-written text
- The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale
- Who gets to understand AI?
- Predictive Data Debugging
- What building Shippy taught us about building agents
June 2026
- How Domyn and AISquared built on Ai2's open releases
- olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop
May 2026
- How open model ecosystems compound
- Why Artificial Analysis uses Ai2's IFBench instruction-following eval
- Open by design: Ai2 brings fully open AI infrastructure online with NSF OMAI
April 2026
- Molmo learns to point and act
- A decade of real-time intelligence for the planet
- Train separately, merge together: Modular post-training with mixture-of-experts
- Evaluating agents for scientific discovery
March 2026
- Highlights from Ai2 at NVIDIA GTC 2026
- MolmoPoint: Better pointing architecture for vision-language models
March 2025
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops MolmoPoint · 3 sources
- Develops Olmo Hybrid · 2 sources
- Develops OlmoEarth Platform · 1 source
- Develops infini-gram · 1 source
- Develops Olmo · 1 source
- Develops Shippy · 1 source
- Integrated with Dolci · 1 source
- Integrated with Tulu 3 · 1 source
- Develops BAR · 1 source
- Develops Asta AutoDiscovery · 1 source
- Develops ScienceWorld · 1 source
Investment & ownership
- Owns Skylight · 1 source