Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Seattle’s open-AI institute—models, science agents, and planetary tools.
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Finding Washington-rooted open AI work and choosing which Ai2 model or app to try next.
Tip for students
Bookmark allenai.org and Hugging Face `allenai/`—weights, data, and papers live there, not only marketing pages.
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What it is
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is based in Seattle and partners closely with the University of Washington. For Skagit Valley / Northwest Washington learners, Ai2 is the regional open-AI story worth knowing by name: Olmo, Tülu, Molmo, Asta, Semantic Scholar, plus applied tools like OlmoEarth and EarthRanger. Start on their site, then dive into individual tools in this catalog.
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