AI2

11 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2024 by Nathan Lambert · across every show →

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Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
AI2 Did Not Log Raw Audio for Pixmo Annotations
“Yeah, it was like Whisper, and I don't remember the details, and I had asked, and it's like, I don't think they actually logged the audio. I was like, oh, this would be super cool for, like, other types of multimodal, but I don't think it was in the terms of t…”
Nathan Lambert Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 18:02 [Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Molmo Reads Clocks but Fails to Generalize to Dials
“The model didn't work on clocks and then the lead was really on clocks and no models work on clocks. So they're like, we've got to make it work on clocks. One of the interesting things is that it doesn't work on dials, even though it works on clocks.”
Nathan Lambert Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 28:34 [Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Pixmo Dataset Contains Approximately 1M Captions Across 700K Images
“They got about a million captions for 700,000 images, which I'm like, okay, that's kind of expensive.”
Vibhu Sapra Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 22:17 [Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Molmo Uses Base Model Without Instruction Tuning or Chat Template
“This is just, like, straight base model, no real instruction tuning. There's literally, like, no chat template for multi-turn. It just concatenates the messages together and, like, there's, like, go, look, good luck.”
Nathan Lambert Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 14:17 [Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Major Foundation Model Companies Will Train on AI2's Vision Data
“The things that this model is good at are things that all the foundation companies, like they're just going to take our data and train on it.”
Nathan Lambert Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 12:15 [Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
Dec 23, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Soldani: Ai2 Trains OLMo Using Community Datasets and Other Models' Outputs
“We see a lot of these even in our own work of like, you know, as we iterate in the various version of Olmo it's not just like every time we collect from scratch all the data. No, the first step is like, okay, what are the cool data sources and datasets people …”
Luca Soldani Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 4:55 Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
Jan 2, 2025
Disclosure
Lambert: AI2 received early industry tip on reinforcement fine-tuning
“We got a tip from a industry lab member to do this a few months early. So we got a head start”
Nathan Lambert Jan 2, 2025 ▶ 15:35 The State of Reasoning — from Nathan Lambert, Interconnects/AI2 [LS Live @ NeurIPS 2024]
Jul 31, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Lambert: OLMo 32B roughly matches original GPT-4 level while fully open
“Like Olmo-Thirty-Tube is if you squint like original GPT-IV level and fully open.”
Nathan Lambert Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 1:16:23 The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
Jul 31, 2025
Insight
Lambert: AI academics must build datasets and evals rather than papers
“If you're trying to have impact in AI right now, it's as an academic, you have to like level up out of papers to artifacts, which is models, datasets, evals. Datasets and evals are easier for people to have impact on.”
Nathan Lambert Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 36:13 The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
Jul 31, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lambert: Tulu 3 matches or beats Meta Llama 3.1 on core evals
“On, like, core evals for our Suite of models from, I think, eight, seven D and four or five B is based on llama at the time. It's like it matches or beats meta on these core valves.”
Nathan Lambert Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 2:20 The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
Jan 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
AI2's OLMo 3 32B leads Artificial Analysis's 18-point Openness Index
“It's out of 18 currently. And so we've got an openness index page, but essentially these are points. You get points for being more open across these different categories and the maximum you can achieve is 18. So AI two with their extremely open OMO three, 32 B…”
George Cameron Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 53:35 Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
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