Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are "the first fully open byte-level language models", built on its Olmo 3 models (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

The Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) has launched Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models designed to operate without predefined vocabularies or tokenizers, thus enhancing efficiency in multilingual model training. The models, Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, are noted for their competitive performance against existing byte-level and character-based models.

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