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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 26, 2024

Wired ☛ The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents

Released today by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, can interpret images as well as converse through a chat interface. This means it can make sense of a computer screen, potentially helping an AI agent perform tasks such as browsing the web, navigating through file directories, and drafting documents.

MIT Technology Review ☛ A tiny new open source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones

Meanwhile, Ai2 says a smaller Molmo model, with 7 billion parameters, comes close to OpenAI’s state-of-the-art model in performance, an achievement it ascribes to vastly more efficient data collection and training methods.