Allen Institute for AI

Seattle WA. Non-profit AI research institute founded by Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder, 2014). Largest 501c3 nonprofit AI research org in world. 200+ researchers. $100M+ annual funding from Paul Allen estate. CEO: Peter Clark (interim May 2026, after Ali Farhadi departed to Microsoft). Key: OLMo (fully open 32B LLM outperforms GPT-4o mini), Tulu (instruction tuning), PRIOR (computer vision), Semantic Scholar, EarthRanger. $152M NSF+Nvidia OMAI project (Aug 2025) — open AI infrastructure for science. AI2 Incubator: co-founds startups, $600K + $1M cloud credits, ~7% common stock. Deep UW Paul G. Allen School partnership (PI Noah Smith dual-appointed).