PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Crystal Nam

Crystal Nam is a researcher whose coauthored work spans open language models, pretraining data and vision-language systems. She coauthored Dolma in 2024, and the paper received an ACL Best Social Impact Paper award. Her 2024 work also included OLMo and Molmo; Molmo and PixMo received a CVPR Best Paper Honorable Mention in 2025. She joined the COLM version of OLMo 2 in 2025 and is part of Ai2's team as of October 2026.

Works
7
Citations
213
h-index
5

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2024

    Dolma and an ACL award

    In 2024, she coauthors Dolma, a three-trillion-token English corpus for language-model pretraining; the paper receives an ACL Best Social Impact Paper Award.

  2. August 2024

    An open language model

    In 2024, she coauthors OLMo, a competitive open language model released with open training data plus training and evaluation code.

  3. September 2024–June 2025

    Molmo earns a CVPR mention

    In September 2024, she coauthors Molmo and PixMo, an open vision-language model family with captioning, question-answering and pointing datasets; the paper receives a Best Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR in June 2025.

  4. 2025

    2 OLMo 2 Furious at COLM

    She joins the authors of the COLM 2025 version of 2 OLMo 2 Furious, which presents the next generation of fully open language models.

  5. As of October 2026

    On Ai2's team

    She is part of Ai2's team in 2026.

Most-cited works

  1. OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models2024 · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 69 citationsWith Luke Zettlemoyer, Nathan Lambert, Niklas Muennighoff and Noah Smith
  2. Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models2025 · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 66 citationsWith Ali Farhadi, Andrew Head, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Newell and Christopher Clark
  3. Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research2024 · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 56 citationsWith Luke Zettlemoyer, Nathan Lambert, Niklas Muennighoff and Noah Smith
  4. 2 OLMo 2 Furious2024 · 2 citationsWith Aman Rangapur, Christopher Clark, Luke Zettlemoyer, Nathan Lambert, Noah Smith and Pang Wei Koh

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

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  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We estimate how 14,272 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Best Paper Awards - ACL 2024 2024.aclweb.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. CVPR 2025 Best Papers and Best Demos cvpr.thecvf.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. COLM 2025: Accepted Papers colmweb.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. 2 OLMo 2 Furious arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  9. Team Directory | Ai2 allenai.org. Checked 19 October 2026.