Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The next big AI model is beating the giants by revealing everything.
In May 2024, the Allen Institute released OLMo 3, an open source model built to compete with the best.
But here’s the shocker:
They didn’t just release the model, they released all of it:
• full training code
• final weights
• 2 trillion training tokens
This strategy, called radical transparency, is a direct challenge to the secrecy of Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
Closed models still dominate raw performance, but OLMo is betting on something else:
That thousands of developers building in public can out-innovate even the most powerful private labs.
The AI race isn’t just about compute anymore.
👉Hear the full breakdown on The Slidebean Stand-Up; streaming now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast platforms.
The next big AI model is beating the giants by revealing everything.
In May 2024, the Allen Institute released OLMo 3, an open source model built to compete with the best.
But here’s the shocker:
They didn’t just release the model, they released all of it:
• full training code
• final weights
• 2 trillion training tokens
This strategy, called radical transparency, is a direct challenge to the secrecy of Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
Closed models still dominate raw performance, but OLMo is betting on something else:
That thousands of developers building in public can out-innovate even the most powerful private labs.
The AI race isn’t just about compute anymore.
👉Hear the full breakdown on The Slidebean Stand-Up; streaming now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast platforms.
