Open by design: Ai2 brings fully open AI infrastructure online with NSF OMAI

Allen Institute (AI2) · 2 months ago

Ai2 launched the NSF-funded Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure for Science with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems, providing compute infrastructure for open-source AI research accessible to the broader scientific community. The $152 million investment was awarded last year and the systems are now operational, with Ai2 estimating that 82% of typical training work is exploratory and can be reused across applications when shared openly. The infrastructure enables research outputs including Molmo 2 multimodal models, MolmoPoint with improved spatial reasoning, and Olmo Hybrid language models that other teams can inspect and build upon, creating multiplicative research value compared to closed proprietary systems.