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  "markdown": "Founder.\n\nPaul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, founded Ai2 in 2014 as a non-profit AI research institute in Seattle, with the aim of finding new ways to apply AI to some of the world's biggest challenges.\n\n## What Paul builds\n\n- [Olmo 3 7B Think](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olmo-3-7b-think.md), graded D, 52.3/100, in Open-weight models. Olmo 3 7B Think is Ai2's fully open 7B reasoning model for maths, code and step-by-step answers, with training data, code and checkpoints published, a 65,536-token context and thinking always on, released in November 2025 under Apache 2.0. Founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Peter Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/peter-clark/), Interim CEO and Senior Research Director\n- [Pradeep Dasigi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pradeep-dasigi/), Lead Research Scientist, Olmo team\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Paul Allen?\n\nPaul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, founded Ai2 in 2014 as a non-profit AI research institute in Seattle, with the aim of finding new ways to apply AI to some of the world's biggest challenges.\n\n### What does Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Olmo 3 7B Think from Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI). Olmo 3 7B Think is Ai2's fully open 7B reasoning model for maths, code and step-by-step answers, with training data, code and checkpoints published, a 65,536-token context and thinking always on, released in November 2025 under Apache 2.0.\n\n### How are Paul's tools graded?\n\nOlmo 3 7B Think is graded D, 52.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://arxiv.org/html/2512.13961v1\n- https://pdasigi.github.io/\n- https://allenai.org/team\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepdasigi\n- https://x.com/pdasigi\n- https://www.interconnects.ai/p/building-olmo-3-think\n- https://x.com/natolambert\n- https://allenai.org/olmo\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanna-hajishirzi-83359816b\n- https://x.com/HannaHajishirzi\n- https://allenai.org/\n- https://huggingface.co/allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Think\n- https://allenai.org/about\n\nNot the same person as [Paul Allen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/paul-allen/) (Microsoft), as far as the research can tell.\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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