The Allen Institute of AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are "the first fully open byte-level language models", built on its Olmo 3 models (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

https://venturebeat.com/ai/bolmos-architecture-unlocks-efficient-byte-level-lm-training-without
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