GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new generation of its flagship large language models, designed to compete more squarely with industry and academic heavyweights. The Seattle-based nonprofit unveiled Olmo 3, a collection of open language models that it says outperforms fully open models such as Stanford’s Marin and commercial open-weight models like Meta’s Llama 3.1. Earlier versions of Olmo were framed mainly as scientific tools for understanding how AI mo...