Our paper documenting the environmental impacts of creating OLMo language models is the most honest and comprehensive characterization I know of, including training, development (!) and inference costs. If you're at ICLR chat with @jacobcares.bsky.social & @clarana.bsky.social Sat morning 10-12:30!
📜Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05804
✍️Thanks to my illustrious coauthors @clarana.bsky.social @jaredfern.bsky.social timdettmers.com @strubell.bsky.social @jessedodge.bsky.social, t'was a fun project 🌏
As the performance of artificial intelligence systems has dramatically increased, so too has the environmental impact of creating these systems. While many model developers release estimates of the po...