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Mar 2026CEO Ali Farhadi stepped down; Peter Clark became interim CEO. GeekWire also reported COO Sophie Lebrecht was leaving and that the board began searching for a permanent successor.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute founded by Paul Allen in 2014. Ai2 focuses on open, reproducible AI research and applications across language models, multimodal AI, robotics, scientific discovery, and climate/conservation work.
Primary product
OLMo, Ai2’s fully open language-model family
Founded
2014
Headquarters
3800 Latona Ave NE, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98105
Team size
200-300
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Sub-industry
AI research institute
Offices
Seattle, WA (headquarters)
Berkeley, CA (research presence)
Business model
nonprofit research institute
open-source model and dataset releases
Funding
Stage
grant-funded nonprofit
Total raised
$152M
Latest round
Grant (Project Funding) · Aug 2025
Latest amount
$152M
NSF / NVIDIA cooperative award for OMAI
Aug 2025 · U.S. National Science Foundation and NVIDIA
Aug 2025 · National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA
People & investors
Founders
Paul Allen
Founder
Investors
Fund for Science and Technology
Work & culture
Mission-driven, open-science, collaborative, and impact-focused. Ai2 emphasizes reproducibility, openness, collaboration, intentional hiring, and a results-oriented approach to ambitious AI research.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Product & market
Pricing
Open-source and generally free to use; models, code, and datasets are released publicly, with some access via Ai2 Playground and partner APIs.
Differentiators
- —fully open model flow with data, code, checkpoints, and weights
- —traceability and reproducibility via tools such as OlmoTrace
- —strong emphasis on scientific discovery and public-interest AI
- —open releases across text, multimodal, robotics, and planetary AI
- —efficiency-focused frontier models built for transparent reuse
- —research institute structure that prioritizes long-horizon open science
Technology
PyTorch
Kubernetes
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
under $1M (public LinkedIn estimate)
Signals & risks
Other
May 2026GeekWire reported at least 10 former Ai2 staffers and researchers joined Microsoft’s Superintelligence team, including Ali Farhadi, Sophie Lebrecht, Hanna Hajishirzi, and Ranjay Krishna, alongside a shift in funding toward a proposal-based process.
SourceLatest news
Ai2 blog · May 2026
Interim CEO Peter Clark discusses Ai2’s mission, open science, and continued focus on long-horizon research in scientific discovery, embodied AI, and planetary AI.
Ai2 blog · May 2026
Ai2 says NSF OMAI compute is now online, turning the 2025 NSF/NVIDIA project into usable infrastructure for a fully open AI research ecosystem.
Ai2 · Dec 2025
Ai2 released Molmo 2, a fully open multimodal model family for image/video understanding, pointing, and tracking, and highlighted the open data and code releases that accompanied it.
Ai2 blog · Nov 2025
Ai2 launched OLMo 3, a frontier fully open language-model family that releases the entire model flow, including data, code, checkpoints, and weights.
Ai2 blog · Aug 2025