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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're making new Stage 1 checkpoints available with the byte-level components already trained & the original model's weights unchanged. Researchers can build on these to test new architectures & train the full system without repeating that initial stage.

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We hope Bolmo opens a path to larger models that adapt how they represent information across languages & domains. Because bytes also represent images & audio, the same ideas could eventually extend beyond text. Learn more in our blog: buff.ly/eAfLyFG

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Now in Nature: Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes | Ai2

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.

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