Molmo 2
Molmo 2 is a new suite of state-of-the-art open vision-language models with fully open weights, training data, and training code that extends the original Molmo family’s grounded image understanding to video and multi-image inputs, enabling advanced video understanding, pointing, tracking, dense captioning, and question-answering capabilities; all with strong spatial and temporal reasoning across frames. Molmo 2 includes three variants: an 8 billion-parameter model optimized for overall video grounding and QA, a 4 billion-parameter version designed for efficiency, and a 7 billion-parameter Olmo-backed model offering a fully open end-to-end architecture including the underlying language model. These models outperform earlier Molmo versions on core benchmarks and set new open-model high-water marks for image and video understanding tasks, often competing with substantially larger proprietary systems while training on a fraction of the data used by comparable closed models.
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NVIDIA Isaac GR00T
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T (Generalist Robot 00 Technology) is a research-driven platform for developing general-purpose humanoid robot foundation models and data pipelines. It includes models like Isaac GR00T-N, and synthetic motion blueprints, GR00T-Mimic for augmenting demonstrations, and GR00T-Dreams for generating novel synthetic trajectories, to accelerate humanoid robotics development. Recently, the open source Isaac GR00T N1 foundation model debuted, featuring a dual-system cognitive architecture, a fast-reacting “System 1” action model, and a deliberative, language-enabled “System 2” reasoning model. The updated GR00T N1.5 introduces enhancements such as improved vision-language grounding, better language command following, few-shot adaptability, and new robot embodiment support. Together with tools like Isaac Sim, Lab, and Omniverse, GR00T empowers developers to train, simulate, post-train, and deploy adaptable humanoid agents using both real and synthetic data.
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Tülu 3
Tülu 3 is an advanced instruction-following language model developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), designed to enhance capabilities in areas such as knowledge, reasoning, mathematics, coding, and safety. Built upon the Llama 3 Base, Tülu 3 employs a comprehensive four-stage post-training process: meticulous prompt curation and synthesis, supervised fine-tuning on a diverse set of prompts and completions, preference tuning using both off- and on-policy data, and a novel reinforcement learning approach to bolster specific skills with verifiable rewards. This open-source model distinguishes itself by providing full transparency, including access to training data, code, and evaluation tools, thereby closing the performance gap between open and proprietary fine-tuning methods. Evaluations indicate that Tülu 3 outperforms other open-weight models of similar size, such as Llama 3.1-Instruct and Qwen2.5-Instruct, across various benchmarks.
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Olmo 2
Olmo 2 is a family of fully open language models developed by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), designed to provide researchers and developers with transparent access to training data, open-source code, reproducible training recipes, and comprehensive evaluations. These models are trained on up to 5 trillion tokens and are competitive with leading open-weight models like Llama 3.1 on English academic benchmarks. Olmo 2 emphasizes training stability, implementing techniques to prevent loss spikes during long training runs, and utilizes staged training interventions during late pretraining to address capability deficiencies. The models incorporate state-of-the-art post-training methodologies from AI2's Tülu 3, resulting in the creation of Olmo 2-Instruct models. An actionable evaluation framework, the Open Language Modeling Evaluation System (OLMES), was established to guide improvements through development stages, consisting of 20 evaluation benchmarks assessing core capabilities.
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