‘Tis the week for small AI fashions, it appears. On Thursday, Ai2, the nonprofit AI analysis institute, launched Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter mannequin that Ai2 claims beats similarly-sized fashions from Google, Meta, and Alibaba on a number of benchmarks. Parameters, generally known as weights, are the inner elements of a mannequin that information its habits. […]