Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without sacrificing quality

Source: VentureBeat

Introduction

Enterprises that want tokenizer‑free multilingual models are increasingly turning to byte‑level language models to reduce brittleness in noisy or low‑resource text. To tap into that niche — and make it practical at scale — the Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) introduced Bolmo, a new family of models that…