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Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson contributed to Ai2's open language-model work through project support, a research-paper credit, and compute infrastructure. In 2024, the OLMo and OLMoE reports acknowledged his work, and he coauthored “2 OLMo 2 Furious,” the OLMo 2 report. In 2025, COLM listed a version of the report among its accepted papers, Apple included it in the published work at its Natural Language and Interactive Systems workshop, and Olmo 3 credited him with compute infrastructure support. As of October 2026, Ai2 lists him on its team.

Timeline

  1. 2024

    Supporting the OLMo release

    In 2024, the OLMo report thanks Wilson for help with the website, design, internal and external communications, budgeting, and other project work.

  2. September 2024

    Named in OLMoE acknowledgments

    In September 2024, the OLMoE paper names Wilson among the teammates it thanks for support.

  3. December 2024

    Coauthoring OLMo 2

    In December 2024, the report lists Wilson as a coauthor of “2 OLMo 2 Furious,” which presents OLMo 2 as the next generation of fully open language models.

  4. 2025

    OLMo 2 at COLM

    The 2025 COLM accepted-papers list includes “2 OLMo 2 Furious (COLM’s Version),” with Wilson among its authors. Apple’s 2025 Natural Language and Interactive Systems workshop includes the paper in its published work and identifies him with the Allen Institute for AI.

  5. 2025

    Olmo 3 infrastructure support

    In 2025, the Olmo 3 report credits Wilson with compute infrastructure setup and support.

  6. As of October 2026

    On Ai2's team

    As of October 2026, Ai2 lists him in its team directory.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.
  3. 72% of AI researchers with top works connect into a single 2,592-person co-author groupIncludes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We map the co-author network across 3,593 people shaping AI and 14,977 most-cited papers: 2,592 (72%) form one connected group with a median distance of 5 steps, led in 2-step reach by Yoshua Bengio (570) and in shortest-path bridging by Yoshua Bengio (6.7%).
  4. Direct Form 990 pay in the latest returns of 39 nonprofits with AI people on this site is highest at $2.1M at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) (2024)Includes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). IRS Form 990 compensation across 39 nonprofits with AI people on this site from 2012 to 2025: in the latest returns, Mozilla reports $6.1M including related-company pay (2024) and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) leads direct nonprofit pay at $2.1M (2024).

Sources and credits

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  1. OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. 2 OLMo 2 Furious arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. COLM 2025 Accepted Papers colmweb.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Apple Workshop on Natural Language and Interactive Systems 2025 machinelearning.apple.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Olmo 3 arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Team Directory | Ai2 allenai.org. Checked 21 October 2026.