The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) hopes to take advantage of an increased demand for customized models and enterprises seeking more transparency from AI models with its latest release.Ai2 made the latest addition to its Olmo family of large language models available to organizations, continuing to focus on openness and customization. Olmo 3 has a longer context window, more reasoning traces and is better at coding than its previous iteration. This latest version, like the other Olmo releases, is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. Enterprises will have complete transparency into and control over the training data and checkpointing. Ai2 will release three versions of Olmo 3:Olmo 3- Think in both 7B and 32B are considered the flagship reasoning models for advanced researchOlmo 3- Base also in both parameters, which is ideal for programming, comprehension, math and long-context reasoning. Ai2 said this version is “ideal for continued pre-training or fine-tuningOlmo 3-Instruct in 7B that is optimized for instruction following, multi-turn dialogue and tool useThe company said Olmo 3- Think is the “first-ever fully open 32B thinking model that generates explicit reasoning-chain-style content.” Olmo-3 Think also has a long context window of 65,000 tokens, perfect for longer-running agentic projects or reasoning over longer documents. Noah Smith, Ai2’s senior director of NLP research, told VentureBeat in an interview that many of its customers, from regulated enterprises to research institutions, want to use models that give them assurance about what went into the training. “The releases from our friends in the tech world are very cool and super exciting, but there are a lot of people for whom data privacy control over what goes into the model, how the models train and other constra …
