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        <title>Ai2 and Google collaborate on a new generation of climate models</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-11-04T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>With funding from Google.org and technical support from Google Research, Ai2 is developing NeuralGCM+, an open-source model designed to combine physics and AI to simulate the atmosphere and ocean together for faster, more reliable long-term climate projections.</div>
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        <title>StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-11-03T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>StateBench tests how language models track changing information across long documents at four difficulty levels, revealing where models struggle and how targeted training helps recurrent and hybrid architectures handle longer sequences.</div>
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        <title>How Olmo 3 earned the highest ethical rating from Nextcloud</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-11-02T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Nextcloud chose Olmo 3 for fully open, self-hosted AI, earning its highest Ethical AI rating while making local AI practical on consumer hardware.</div>
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        <title>How researchers are adapting olmOCR 2 for historical and archaeological archives</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-28T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Researchers are adapting olmOCR 2 to make historical photo libraries searchable locally and improve transcription of handwritten archaeological records.</div>
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        <title>Can we trust LLMs to judge whether a research idea is novel?</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-27T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Old Ideas, Novel Problems tests how reliably LLMs judge the novelty of research ideas, finding that small changes to the evaluation setup can produce very different verdicts.</div>
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        <title>LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-23T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>LitPivot helps researchers refine early research ideas through literature-supported critiques and revisions as their proposals evolve.</div>
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        <title>OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-22T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>OlmoEarth v1.3 brings state-of-the-art satellite embeddings, precomputed global data, and a browser-based Embeddings Explorer for mapping and analyzing the planet.</div>
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        <title>A crop-mapping benchmark for the tropics</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-22T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>PLANTEUR extends the PASTIS crop-mapping benchmark to six tropical regions to help evaluate geospatial models across more diverse agricultural systems.</div>
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        <title>FairStress: A deeper evaluation of fairness in LLM decision-making</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-20T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>FairStress is a new benchmark that reveals demographic differences in how LLMs defend and explain their decisions, even when their final choices appear fair.</div>
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        <title>HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-14T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>HiRO-ACEv2 captures extreme rain, wind, and pressure events at 3 km resolution for about 1/300th the cost of X-SHiELD, making detailed global climate simulations more accessible to researchers.</div>
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        <title>How Molmo 2’s open release helped an MIT researcher rethink fish tracking</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-13T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Molmo 2’s open release helped MIT researcher Kai Van Brunt develop Molmo2Fish, an experimental model that tracks salmon in sonar footage and corrects some tracking errors using everyday language.</div>
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        <title>Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-09T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>We explain how Ai2’s new GPU scheduler uses time budgets, fair-share allocation, and time-slicing to prioritize high-impact research, shorten queue waits, and keep GPUs busy.</div>
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        <title>Ai2 at COLM 2026: Open research, from models to agents for science</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-09T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Ai2 joined COLM 2026 to share advances in open language models, training infrastructure, and AI for science, including Olmo Hybrid, Asta, and Bolmo, while connecting with the broader research community.</div>
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        <title>Now in Nature: Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-07T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>The technique behind Bolmo, Ai2’s fully open byte-level language models, is now published in Nature, with new checkpoints showing the approach generalizes beyond Olmo to other model families.</div>
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        <title>Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-02T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>We’re releasing AstaBrief, an 8B open-weights model for generating cited scientific reports, available in Asta’s Fast mode or to download and run on your own infrastructure.</div>
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        <title>Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-10-01T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Olmo-core 3 introduces a redesigned, fully open training stack for efficiently scaling mixture-of-experts models into the trillion-parameter range.</div>
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        <title>What a crowdsourced game revealed about steering Olmo 3</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-09-17T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>A crowdsourced game built on Olmo 3 showed how people can exploit unexpected model behaviors to stress-test prosocial AI evaluations—and how open access to a model’s internals can help researchers understand why those tests break.</div>
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        <title>Teaching future scientists to interrogate AI tools for scientific discovery</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-09-14T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>University of Washington students put Ai2’s AutoDiscovery to the test, showing how AI can surface promising scientific leads while making human judgment, domain expertise, and rigorous validation more important than ever.</div>
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        <title>How Goodfire used Ai2’s open post-training stack to trace unwanted model behavior</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-09-09T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Goodfire used Ai2’s fully open post-training stack to predict LLM behavioral changes, trace unwanted model behavior back to individual training examples, and test targeted fixes without sacrificing broader capability gains.</div>
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        <title>BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-09-01T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>BenchMIRT is a new method for auditing LLM benchmarks question by question, revealing which capabilities they actually measure and helping researchers build smaller, more focused, and easier-to-interpret evaluations.</div>
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        <title>The hard parts of AI-assisted science</title>
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              <div>At an Ai2 event marking our expanded collaboration with Providence Swedish, researchers explored the hardest problems in AI-assisted science: keeping systems steerable, grounded in human judgment and sound methods, and responsive to new evidence and experiments.</div>
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              <div>Ai2 and Providence Swedish Cancer Institute are expanding their collaboration after AutoDiscovery helped researchers uncover and validate a promising new immune signal in invasive lobular breast cancer.</div>
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        <title>How researchers adapted Dolma for better Thai language models</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-08-26T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>Thai researchers adapted Ai2’s open Dolma toolkit to build Mangosteen, a 47-billion-token Thai corpus that filters low-quality web data while maintaining or improving model performance and strengthening Thai cultural knowledge.</div>
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        <pubDate>2026-08-21T00:00:00-08:00</pubDate>
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              <div>A Georgia Tech team used Ai2’s fully open Olmo stack to trace social reasoning back to the training data that shaped it, finding that dialogue-rich, interpersonal writing had an outsized influence on the capability.</div>
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        <title>When a model reads a drug&#39;s class from its name—not its knowledge</title>
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