Bolmo

Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are “the first fully open byte-level language models”, built on its Olmo 3 models

and every token gets the same compute, regardless of complexity. Benjamin Minixhofer / @bminixhofer : There are also some things Bolmo lets us do which we just can't do using subword-level LMs. For ex...