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1002 Ai2 releases MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent with 30K human task trajectories and a full training stack

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VentureBeat · 03/24/2026 11:00 EDT

Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them. Ai2 is now offering a third option.The Seattle-based nonprofit behind the open-source OLMo language models and Molmo vision-language family today is releasing MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent available in 4 billion and 8 billion parameter sizes.

Until now, no open-weight visual web agent shipped with the training data and pipeline needed to

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