open-source AI
3 published articles
AI Open Source
Two AI labs just proved why open models win in regulated industries
Domyn and AISquared leveraged Ai2's open-source Olmo family and Dolma/Dolci datasets to create models for regulated industries. Full transparency into architecture and training data helped them meet compliance requirements and cut infrastructure costs by roughly 50%.
2026-07-11
Funding round
Ollama raised $88 million to make open models boring. That is the whole point.
Ollama raised $88 million from Benchmark and Docker founder Solomon Hykes to scale its open-model platform, now used by 8.9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500. The bet: make local AI ownership as boringly easy as Docker made containers.
2026-07-09
Open AI Infrastructure
Ai2 just opened an AI cluster that publicly shares every mistake, not just the win
Ai2 just turned on a new AI cluster under the NSF OMAI project, one that makes models, tools, and processes fully open. An internal study found 82% of training effort goes to dead ends. Every GPU hour counts more when it fuels research across language, multimodal, and scientific domains.
2026-07-06