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Fresh off releasing the latest version of its Olmo foundation model, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) launched its open-source video model, Molmo 2, on Tuesday, aiming to show that smaller, open models can be viable options for enterprises focused on video understanding and analysis.In a press release, the company said Molmo 2 “takes Molmo’s strengths in grounded vision and expands them to video and multi-image understanding,” a capability that has largely been dominated by larger proprietary models.Ai2 rel
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Gen AI in software engineering has moved well beyond autocomplete. The emerging frontier is agentic coding: AI systems capable of planning changes, executing them across multiple steps and iterating based on feedback. Yet despite the excitement around “AI agents that code,” most enterprise deployments underperform. The limiting factor is no longer the model. It’s context: The structure, history and intent surrounding the code being changed. In other words, enterprises are... Read more ›
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