OLMo: Everything You Need to Train an Open Source LLM with Akshita Bhagia - #674

This article from Practical AI discusses OLMo, a new open-source language model developed by the Allen Institute for AI. The key differentiator of OLMo compared to models from Meta, Mistral, and others is that AI2 has also released the dataset and tools used to train the model. The article highlights the various projects under the OLMo umbrella, including Dolma, a large dataset for pretraining, and Paloma, a benchmark for evaluating language model performance. The interview with Akshita Bhagia provides insights into the model and its associated projects.

• •OLMo is a new open-source language model with 7 billion and 1 billion variants.
• •AI2 has released the dataset and tools used to train OLMo, unlike some other models.
• •The OLMo umbrella includes projects like Dolma (dataset) and Paloma (benchmark).