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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.
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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
grant/philanthropy-funded R&D
research partnerships and consortia
demo/platform distribution
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
Philanthropic commitment / Project Alexandria funding
Feb 2018 · Paul G. Allen
People & investors
Founders
Paul Allen
Founder
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
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Google Cloud
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
Slack
Workday
React
Scala
JavaScript
Linux
Slurm
MongoDB
CSS
HTML
SAML
Okta
Figma
Customers
researchers
scientists
developers
universities and academic labs
public-sector collaborators
nonprofit collaborators
robotics teams
climate and conservation practitioners
Competitors
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google DeepMind
Meta AI
DeepSeek
Qwen / Alibaba
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
Ai2 announced a $152M NSF/NVIDIA-supported project, OMAI, led by Noah A. Smith, to build a national-level fully open AI ecosystem for scientific discovery.
Jobs and careers at AI2
17 jobs at AI2
Senior Product Manager, Asta
On-site
Strategic Infrastructure Programs
Seattle, WA; Seattle, WA, United States
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Lead Security Engineer
On-site
Engineering
Seattle, WA; Seattle, WA, United States
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Research Scientist, Open Ecosystem
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA; Seattle, WA, United States
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Lead Product Designer, AI for the Planet
On-site
Applied Science
Seattle, WA; Seattle, WA, United States
3w ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform (AI for the Planet)
On-site
Applied Science
Seattle, WA; Seattle, WA, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Payroll Lead
On-site
Finance
Seattle, WA; Seattle, WA, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Young Investigator, Open Language Models for Biology
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Predoctoral Young Investigator, Open Ecosystem
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Research Engineer, Asta
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Research Scientist, Robotics
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Frameworks
On-site
Engineering
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure
On-site
Engineering
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack
On-site
Engineering
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Research Scientist, Asta
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Robotics Engineer
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Young Investigator, Robotics
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Research Engineer, Olmo + Molmo
On-site
Research
Seattle, WA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time