Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Ownership is a scam invented by big thing to sell more stuff. 000
Reposted by Mechanical DirkNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Happy Olmo day to all who celebrate. Sorry to all who delayed releases today to get out of our way. We're hiring. 0322
Reposted by Mechanical DirkAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Announcing Olmo 3, a leading fully open LM suite built for reasoning, chat, & tool use, and an open model flow—not just the final weights, but the entire training journey. Best fully open 32B reasoning model & best 32B base model. 🧵 16917
Reposted by Mechanical DirkKyle Lo @ ICML2026 🇰🇷 @kylelo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025we released Olmo 3! lot of exciting stuff but wanna focus on: 🐟Olmo 3 32B Base, the best fully-open base model to-date, near Qwen 2.5 & Gemma 3 on diverse evals 🐠Olmo 3 32B Think, first fully-open reasoning model approaching Qwen 3 levels 🐡12 training datasets corresp to different staged training 1417
Reposted by Mechanical DirkNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I'm excited to announce my RLHF Book is now in pre-order for the @manning.com Early Access Program (MEAP), and for this milestone it's 50% off. Excited to land in print in early 2026! Lots of improvements coming soon. Thanks for the support! hubs.la/Q03Tc37Q0 4474
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Incredible work by Apple's UX department, enabling three different corner radii at the same time 🙈 020
Reposted by Mechanical DirkDaniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social · 23/10/2025While reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...dbuschek.medium.comWhen LLMs Write Our PapersFour writing issues I notice as a reviewer — and how to fix them 2285
Reposted by Mechanical DirkAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025We’re releasing early pre-training checkpoints for OLMo-2-1B to help study how LLM capabilities emerge. They’re fine-grained snapshots intended for analysis, reproduction, and comparison. 🧵 1276
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Mein Dreijähriger: "Ich will den Lerns Geschichte Podcast hören!" Was ist denn "Lerns Geschichte"? Zwei Minuten später im Radio: "Lernen's a bissel @geschichte.fm, dann ..." 😲 000
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025This project is a perfect model of an OLMo contribution. Well scoped, practical, sound theoretical underpinnings, and @lambdaviking.bsky.social submitted the paper 24h before the deadline 😍. It's integrated into the OLMo trainer here: github.com/allenai/OLMo... 020
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Finally, OLMo 1B. This is the most commonly requested OLMo feature l, and it's finally here. 010
Reposted by Mechanical DirkJacob Morrison @jacobcares.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I'm in Singapore for @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! Come check out our spotlight paper on the environmental impact of training OLMo (link in next tweet) during the Saturday morning poster session from 10-12:30 -- happy to chat about this or anything else! DMs should be open, email works too 1105
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Came across arxiv.org/pdf/2504.05058 today. What a cool example of work you can do when LLM training data is open!arxiv.org 170
Reposted by Mechanical DirkAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Ever wonder how LLM developers choose their pretraining data? It’s not guesswork— all AI labs create small-scale models as experiments, but the models and their data are rarely shared. DataDecide opens up the process: 1,050 models, 30k checkpoints, 25 datasets & 10 benchmarks 🧵 15211
Reposted by Mechanical DirkJiacheng Liu @liujch1998.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Today we're unveiling OLMoTrace, a tool that enables everyone to understand the outputs of LLMs by connecting to their training data. We do this on unprecedented scale and in real time: finding matching text between model outputs and 4 trillion training tokens within seconds. ✨ 1415
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The fact that my Bsky feed is all tariffs and none Llama 4 means the platform is pretty much cooked for research purposes. 110
Reposted by Mechanical DirkAlisa Liu @alisawuffles.bsky.social · 21/03/2025We created SuperBPE🚀, a *superword* tokenizer that includes tokens spanning multiple words. When pretraining at 8B scale, SuperBPE models consistently outperform the BPE baseline on 30 downstream tasks (+8% MMLU), while also being 27% more efficient at inference time.🧵 38316
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Error bars! @hails.computer will be so proud! 020
Reposted by Mechanical DirkAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Introducing olmOCR, our open-source tool to extract clean plain text from PDFs! Built for scale, olmOCR handles many document types with high throughput. Run it on your own GPU for free—at over 3000 token/s, equivalent to $190 per million pages, or 1/32 the cost of GPT-4o! 38213
Reposted by Mechanical DirkAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 11/02/2025We took our most efficient model and made an open-source iOS app📱but why? As phones get faster, more AI will happen on device. With OLMoE, researchers, developers, and users can get a feel for this future: fully private LLMs, available anytime. Learn more from @soldaini.net👇 youtu.be/rEK_FZE5rqQyoutu.beAi2 OLMoE: Fully open source, running entirely on-deviceYouTube video by Ai2 23014
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 26/01/202514.8T tokens in 2.8M hours is about 1500 tokens per second. That's a very good number for 37B active parameters, but by no means unbelievable. 000
Reposted by Mechanical DirkNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Behind the scenes with what its like to build language models and pursue (hopefully) cutting edge AI research Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models What we have learned and are going to do next. YouTube: buff.ly/40IlSFF Podcast / notes:buff.lyInterviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language modelsWhat we have learned and are going to do next. 1338
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 19/01/2025In November, every post here was about NLP. Now it's all about TikTok. We're doing the Twitter speed run. 020
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025A few days ago, we did finally release the OLMo 2 tech report: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00656. There is a lot of good stuff in there, but the stability work we did over the summer makes me particularly proud.arxiv.org 010
Reposted by Mechanical DirkNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Everyone wants open-source language models but no one wants to lift these heavy ass weights. We just released our paper "2 OLMo 2 Furious" Can't stop us in 2025. Links below. 65610
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Some people seem to believe that LLMs give inoffensive, milquetoast answers because of overblown safety concerns ("Because of the woke!"). But that's not it. LLMs give bland answers because they produce the average of what anyone would have said on the Internet. 120
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 14/12/2024It seems to me the second most common language spoken in the halls of NeurIPS is German. 040
Reposted by Mechanical DirkNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Made a list of resources for open source language models with @soldaini.net ahead of the tutorial tomorrow at 930 AM. github.com/allenai/awes...github.comGitHub - allenai/awesome-open-source-lms: Friends of OLMo and their links.Friends of OLMo and their links. Contribute to allenai/awesome-open-source-lms development by creating an account on GitHub. 211120
Reposted by Mechanical DirkJiacheng Liu @liujch1998.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Want to predict the task performance of LMs before pretraining them? We develop task scaling laws and model ladders, which predict the accuracy on individual tasks by OLMo 2 7B & 13B models within 2 points of absolute error. The cost is 1% of the compute used to pretrain them. 23314
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I'll be at NeurIPS from Wednesday until Sunday! Do you think about pre-training? GPUs? What makes a foundation model good? If you have questions or answers, let's find a time to chat! 060
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024We just updated the OLMo repo at github.com/allenai/OLMo! There are now several training configs that together reproduce the training runs that lead to the final OLMo 2 models. In particular, all the training data is available, tokenized and shuffled exactly as we trained on it!github.comGitHub - allenai/OLMo: Modeling, training, eval, and inference code for OLMoModeling, training, eval, and inference code for OLMo - allenai/OLMo 05411
Reposted by Mechanical DirkNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I've spent the last two years scouring all available resources on RLHF specifically and post training broadly. Today, with the help of a totally cracked team, we bring you the fruits of that labor — Tülu 3, an entirely open frontier model post training recipe. We beat Llama 3.1 Instruct. Thread. 821343
Reposted by Mechanical DirkIan Magnusson @ianmagnusson.bsky.social · 20/12/2023LMs are used to process text from many topics, styles, dialects, etc., but how well do they do? 📈 Evaluating perplexity on just one corpus like C4 doesn't tell the whole story 📉 ✨📃✨ We introduce Paloma, a benchmark of 585 domains from NY Times to r/depression on Reddit. 1177
