Farewell Ai2
Nathan Lambert is departing Ai2 to work on better-coordinating the open AI ecosystem.
“AI needs independent voices as it only becomes more geopolitical, socially disruptive, and central to the economy.”— Nathan Lambert
Nathan Lambert, a prominent open-AI researcher behind Ai2's Olmo models and the Interconnects newsletter, announced his departure from the Allen Institute for AI to focus on making the open AI ecosystem better coordinated and more useful. The move matters because Lambert is an influential independent voice in open-source AI, and his exit signals continued churn and realignment among the small set of labs pursuing fully open frontier-adjacent models.