🤩AI2 Redefines Open-Source AI

PLUS: OpenAI’s Big India Move

September 02, 2025

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🗞️In this edition

  • AI2 releases fully open-source model OLMo

  • Workflow Wednesday #34 ‘Streamlining Operations’

  • OpenAI’s next big AI hub is India

  • In other AI news –

    • Meta blocks chatbot talks on teen self-harm topics

    • OpenAI releases new open-source language models

  • 4 must-try AI tools

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♨️News – The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has unveiled OLMo, a new open-source large language model designed to make AI research more transparent. Unlike most models that stop at releasing weights and code, OLMo also shares training data, evaluation tools, and detailed checkpoints, giving researchers full access to study how the model works.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

  • AI2 was founded in 2014 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

  • OLMo is available under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.

  • It includes pretraining data, training code, evaluation suites, and over 500 checkpoints.

  • Experts from Hugging Face, MosaicML, and Meta called the release a major step forward for open science.

  • The launch comes as open-source AI gains momentum, with new models from Mistral and Meta also in the spotlight.

🤓OpenTools POV – OLMo could become a turning point for open-source AI, giving researchers unprecedented visibility into how language models are built. The move highlights a bigger shift toward openness, but whether these models can match the performance of closed systems remains to be seen.

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This Week in Workflow Wednesday #34: Streamlining Operations

 Workflow 1: Create Internal SOPs in Seconds (Using Guidde)
Every week, someone asks the same question: “How do I update this in Beehiv?” “Where do I click in Asana?” Instead of repeating yourself, capture the process once and scale your answer with Guidde.

Step 1: Install Guidde
Add the free Guidde Chrome Extension.

Step 2: Start Recording a Process
Open the tool you want to document, hit Record in Guidde, and walk through your workflow once…We break it all down in this week’s issue, along with 2 other AI workflows.

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☕News – OpenAI is planning a large-scale data center in India as part of its global Stargate project. The facility, expected to have at least 1 gigawatt of capacity, could be announced when CEO Sam Altman visits the country this month.  

👨‍💻Fast facts –

  • The data center would rank among the biggest in India.

  • OpenAI is looking for local partners to set it up.

  • Similar projects are underway in the US, Norway, and Abu Dhabi.

  • The effort connects to the $1.2 billion IndiaAI Mission.

  • India is OpenAI’s second-largest market by users.

🤓OpenTools POV –  This potential build signals how AI infrastructure is becoming central to national strategies. For India, hosting OpenAI’s expansion could strengthen its role in global AI while ensuring more localized services for its fast-growing user base.

  • Meta to stop its AI chatbots from talking to teens about suicide // Meta said it will introduce more guardrails to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots - including blocking them from talking to teens about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

  • OpenAI returns to open source roots with new models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b // OpenAI is getting back to its roots as an open source AI company with today's announcement and release of two new, open source, frontier large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b

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  2. Teachally - An AI-powered platform designed to assist teachers in creating standard-aligned lesson plans

  3. Wonderplan - An AI-powered travel planner that generates tailored trip itineraries based on your interests, preferences, and budget

  4. Taskade - A collaborative productivity tool for teams to plan, organize, and execute projects

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