AI2 RELEASES NEW LANGUAGE MODELS COMPETITIVE WITH META'S LLAMA

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Ai2 has released OLMo 2, an open-source language model series with models containing 7 and 13 billion parameters. OLMo 2 is developed with publicly accessible training data and code. Aiming to boost open-source AI innovation, Ai2 claims these models outperform similar open models like Meta's Llama 3.1. The models are available under the Apache 2.0 license for commercial use.