The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is a non-profit research institute founded in 2014 and based in Seattle. The organisation employs over 200 people working across foundational AI research, open models, AI for science, environmental applications, climate modelling, and embodied AI for robotics.
AI2's approach to openness extends beyond releasing source code; the institute also publishes model weights, training data, evaluations, and code for its projects. Notable outputs include OLMo, an open model for foundational AI research; Asta, an AI tool for science; and EarthRanger, an environmental application. The institute operates under principles of openness, scientific rigour, impact, and collaboration, and partners with academic, government, and industry organisations.
Technical roles at AI2 span areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and large-scale model training. The institute's stated mission is to build breakthrough AI to solve significant global problems through a combination of foundational research, open-source releases, and applied projects in fields including climate science and conservation.
