Ai2's Bolmo byte-level language model research is published in Nature, and a new checkpoint is released
Ai2's Bolmo byte-level language model research has been published in Nature, and a new checkpoint has been released on Hugging Face, extending the byteifying method from Olmo to Qwen 3 8B and Llama 3 8B, yielding Bwen 8B and BlamaLlama-B 8B. Bwen 8B is the strongest byteified model to date, surpassing Bolmo 7B on the comprehensive evaluation suite. Ai2 has also released a Stage 1 checkpoint, which freezes the original model and trains only the newly added byte-level components.
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