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 leverage its Olmo 3 models by “bytefiying” them and reusing their backbone and capabilities. The company launched two versions, Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, which are “the first fully open byte-level langu...