Ai2 Releases Bolmo-7B-Stage1, a Byte-Level Model Retrofitted from Olmo 3 7B

Ai2 has released Bolmo-7B-Stage1, a 7B byte-level language model retrofitted from Olmo 3 7B through a short additional training procedure. This checkpoint includes only Stage 1 training, with inner model parameters unchanged, and is licensed under Apache 2.0 for research and educational use.