Articles from Ai2

Ai2 (The Allen Institute for AI) today launched Asta, an integrated, open ecosystem designed to transform how science is done with AI agents. At a time when AI tools are flooding the research landscape—often opaque, untested, and unproven—Asta offers a principled alternative: a comprehensive collection that includes an agentic AI research assistant, the first rigorous benchmark suite for scientific agents, and a set of developer resources for building trustworthy tools.

Ai2 (The Allen Institute for AI) today announced the release of MolmoAct 7B, a breakthrough embodied AI model that brings the intelligence of state of the art AI models into the physical world. Instead of reasoning through language and converting that into movement, MolmoAct actually sees its surroundings, understands the relationships between space, movement and time, and plans its movements accordingly. It does this by generating visual reasoning tokens that transform 2D image inputs into 3D spatial plans—enabling robots to navigate the physical world with greater intelligence and control.

As AI adoption accelerates—even in high-stakes industries like healthcare, life science, finance, and security—one pressing challenge remains: how can we trust and fully harness its potential if we can’t understand how it makes decisions? The lack of transparency in LLMs limits not only our ability to build trusted AI solutions that can be validated, audited, and regulated - it also fundamentally limits our ability to build better, scientifically grounded AI.

Today, Ai2 announced a partnership with Google Cloud to make its portfolio of open AI models available in Vertex AI Model Garden. The collaboration will help set a new standard for openness that leverages Google Cloud’s infrastructure resources and AI development platform with Ai2’s open models that will advance AI research and offer enterprise-quality deployment for the public sector.