Nathan Lambert
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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That is kind of the story of the first decade roughly.
It's not quite the first ten years and now there's like Orin left the process of leaving started a few years ago and there's the new CEO, Ali Barhadi, also professor at UW, was at Apple before um
most prominent work from his group, I think, is the YOLO line of work in computer vision.
And it's kind of bringing in new blood to make this transition to build open language models.
I think with a lot of in a lot of institutions realize that in order to be credible in AI, you need to have some amount of cred in the language modeling space.
And right now for AI research, it is to be like, look, we can do this too.
And it is a narrowing of scope to try to release great models and build models.
I think Olmo is the start of this.
which was it was a very long story in 2023 that I was not a part of most of.
I joined late in the year and launched in early 2024.
And then 2024 has been the year of like doubling down on this and
Scaling up projects that you can do when you have more people.
I think we'll talk about the post training side of things and there's plenty on pre training and stuff in Vals as well.
But it's really like what do academic projects in open source AI look like when you can bring more people in.
And I think
Throughout the year a lot of our projects have been getting bigger and we've seen like Molmo, the vision model, which is primarily on the like vision team but gets involved with the language pre training team and other things.
It's like these projects getting bigger and trying to increase the scope of research while doing as much as we can in the open.
So no constraints on what we can say.
At the end of the day, nonprofits are about telling a good story, and stories are what can actually like change how policy happens and how people view the world.
So at the end of the day, the Allen Institute needs to build good models so we can communicate why open source has benefits.
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