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Taira Anderson

Taira Anderson is a project manager at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), where they work on the lab's fully open Olmo language models and Molmo vision-language models. They coauthored Molmo and PixMo and OLMo 2 in 2024, then OLMoTrace and Olmo 3 in 2025. In 2026, they managed the Molmo2 project and coauthored the MolmoWeb web agents and MolmoMotion, a 3D motion-forecasting model. As of October 2026, they are a Project Manager at Ai2 on the NSF OMAI project, a national-level open AI infrastructure effort built on Olmo and Molmo.

Timeline

  1. September 2024

    Molmo and PixMo

    In September 2024, they appear among the authors of "Molmo and PixMo," which presents Molmo, a family of open-weight vision-language models, and PixMo, a collection of new datasets for pre-training and fine-tuning.

  2. December 2024

    OLMo 2 open language models

    In December 2024, they coauthor "2 OLMo 2 Furious," which presents OLMo 2, a family of fully open language models at 7B, 13B and 32B scales. The release includes model weights, full training data, training code and recipes.

  3. April 2025

    The OLMoTrace system

    In April 2025, they coauthor OLMoTrace, a system that traces the outputs of language models back to their multi-trillion-token training data in real time. The system is publicly available and fully open-source.

  4. December 2025

    The Olmo 3 model family

    Olmo 3 arrives in December 2025 as a family of fully open language models at the 7B and 32B parameter scales, and they are among its authors. The release covers every stage, checkpoint, data point and dependency used to build the models.

  5. January 2026

    Managing the Molmo2 project

    Molmo2, a family of open-weight vision-language models for video understanding and point-driven grounding, appears in January 2026. They are a coauthor and manage the project.

  6. April 2026

    MolmoWeb open web agents

    In April 2026, they coauthor MolmoWeb, a family of fully open multimodal web agents in 4B and 8B sizes, together with MolmoWebMix, a mixture of browser task demonstrations and web-GUI perception data.

  7. June 2026

    MolmoMotion 3D motion forecasting

    MolmoMotion, released in June 2026, predicts the future 3D trajectory of each query point on an object from a short visual history and a language description of the goal. They are a coauthor, with the Allen Institute for AI as their affiliation.

  8. As of October 2026

    Project Manager on NSF OMAI

    They are a Project Manager at Ai2 on the NSF OMAI team, a project supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and NVIDIA to create a national-level AI infrastructure built by Ai2. NSF OMAI builds on Ai2's fully open models Olmo and Molmo.

  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. Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. GitHub - allenai/molmo: Code for the Molmo Vision-Language Model github.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. 2 OLMo 2 Furious arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. OLMoTrace: Tracing Language Model Outputs Back to Trillions of Training Tokens arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Olmo 3 arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Molmo2: Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video Understanding and Grounding arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Molmo2: Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video Understanding and Grounding (full text) arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. MolmoWeb: Open Visual Web Agent and Open Data for the Open Web arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instruction arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  10. MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instruction (project page) molmomotion.github.io. Checked 20 October 2026.
  11. NSF OMAI | Ai2 allenai.org. Checked 20 October 2026.