Allen Institute for AI

Allen Institute for AI is a non-profit AI research institute based in Seattle. It releases fully open large language models, datasets and model training assets. Its fully open models, such as Olmo, are aimed at researchers and developers. Its Semantic Scholar tool is an artificial-intelligence backed search engine for academic publications, publicly released in November 2015.

It was founded in 2014 by Paul Allen, a Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit scientific research institute. It has an active office in Tel Aviv, Israel, in addition to Seattle. Ali Farhadi announced in March 2026 that he would step down as CEO, to be replaced by Peter Clark on an interim basis.

Its AI for the Environment teams apply artificial intelligence to the prevention of poaching and illegal fishing, and to environmental problems like climate modeling and wildfire management. Its PRIOR team works on computer vision, creating AI systems that can see, explore, learn, and reason about the world. Its AllenNLP team researches ways to improve the performance and accountability of NLP systems.