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Ali Farhadi

Allen Institute for AI CEO

CEO of the Allen Institute for AI since 2023; previously a senior director at Apple. Computer-vision researcher (YOLO; UW) and longtime advocate of open-source frontier models.

current CEO, Allen Institute for AI; Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington

past Senior Director, AI/ML, Apple

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Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safety

Argues fully open frontier models, including data and training recipes, are necessary for the field's scientific integrity and for democratizing access to advanced AI.

We released OLMo with everything: weights, training data, training code, evaluation suites. Open-source AI cannot be a marketing word, it has to be all the way down.

¶ articleOLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models· Allen Institute for AI· 2024-02· faithful paraphrase

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Record last updated 2026-04-25.