Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
AI for the common good — high-impact research and engineering in the service of society.
Year Founded:
2014
Geography:
North America
Address:
3800 Latona Ave NE, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98105
Visit WebsiteTo 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.
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
AI Impact Areas
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
2026: CEO Ali Farhadi stepped down (March 2026); Peter Clark, a founding member, became interim CEO
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); founding CEO Oren Etzioni led the institute to 2022
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