# Paul Allen

> Paul Allen is founder. Olmo 3 7B Think on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Founder.

Paul 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.

## What Paul builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Peter Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/peter-clark/), Interim CEO and Senior Research Director
- [Pradeep Dasigi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pradeep-dasigi/), Lead Research Scientist, Olmo team

## Questions

### Who is Paul Allen?

Paul 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.

### What does Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Paul's tools graded?

Olmo 3 7B Think is graded D, 52.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://arxiv.org/html/2512.13961v1
- https://pdasigi.github.io/
- https://allenai.org/team
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepdasigi
- https://x.com/pdasigi
- https://www.interconnects.ai/p/building-olmo-3-think
- https://x.com/natolambert
- https://allenai.org/olmo
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanna-hajishirzi-83359816b
- https://x.com/HannaHajishirzi
- https://allenai.org/
- https://huggingface.co/allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Think
- https://allenai.org/about

Not the same person as [Paul Allen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/paul-allen/) (Microsoft), as far as the research can tell.

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