Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)

AI for the common good — high-impact research and engineering in the service of society.

About Us

Year Founded:

2014

Geography:

North America

Address:

3800 Latona Ave NE, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98105

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Mission

To conduct high-impact AI research and engineering for the common good. AI2 aims to contribute to humanity through impactful AI research and to broaden access to AI technology by building open-source tools and datasets for the research community.

Impact

AI areas they serve

Areas of Focus

Natural language processing

Computer vision

Open-source AI research

AI for science

Common sense reasoning

AI and climate

AI for education

Responsible AI development

Upcoming Goals

Continue developing open-source AI models and tools

Advance AI for scientific discovery

Expand Semantic Scholar capabilities

Promote responsible and equitable AI development

Milestones

2024: Released OLMo open language models; continued Semantic Scholar platform (200M+ papers indexed)

2023: Published AI2 Impact Report highlighting research contributions

2020: Released COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) for pandemic research

2017: Created Semantic Scholar, free AI-powered research tool

2014: Founded by Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder) with CEO Oren Etzioni; now led by Ali Farhadi