It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

Ai2 releases Bolmo, a new byte-level language model the company hopes would encourage more enterprises to use byte level architecture.

Introducing Bolmo; one of the world’s first fully open byte-level AI models, redefining how language models read and understand text.  Unlike traditional A ...

AI2 has unveiled Bolmo, a byte-level model created by retrofitting its OLMo 3 model with <1% of the compute budget.

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has released Bolmo, a new family of AI models that represents a shift in how machines can process language. While byte-level architectures like ByT5 and Byte Latent ...