Ai2's $152M NSF OMAI open AI infrastructure goes online with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra systems
allen_ai · x · 2026-09-18
Ai2 announces that NSF OMAI (Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure for Science) is operational: backed by $152 million from the NSF and NVIDIA awarded last year, NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra-powered systems are now online serving a fully open ecosystem.
- Unlike infrastructure powering a single proprietary system, every training run here can be reused, extended, and built upon by others
- Ai2 maximizes return per GPU-hour by keeping models, tools, and processes fully open
- PI Noah A. Smith frames it as a critical step as access to advanced AI concentrates in a few companies
- Researchers can also run Olmo 3-32B remotely via the NSF-supported National Deep Inference Fabric without hosting it themselves
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