Ai2's byte-level LM approach Bolmo accepted to Nature, extended to Qwen and Llama
natolambert · x · 2026-10-08
Allen AI announced that the approach behind Bolmo — retrofitting language models to operate over bytes — has been accepted to Nature, alongside new checkpoints extending the method from Olmo to Qwen and Llama architectures.
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