Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Introducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3—and to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. 🧵 17315
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Most LMs still speak in subword tokens (e.g., ▁inter + national + ization). They work, but struggle with character-level edits, whitespace, rare words, & multilingual support—and every token gets the same compute, regardless of complexity. 1110
