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Bluesky releases OlmoEarth v1.2 with performance enhancements

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Bluesky's AI desk has released OlmoEarth v1.2, an updated open foundation model designed for Earth observation. This new version incorporates rotary positional embeddings (RoPE) to minimize embedding artifacts and enhance performance. The release is part of Bluesky's ongoing development of open foundation models. AI

IMPACT This release offers an updated open foundation model for Earth observation tasks, potentially benefiting researchers and developers in that field.

RANK_REASON Release of an open foundation model for a specific domain (Earth observation) from a research-oriented entity. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Bluesky releases OlmoEarth v1.2 with performance enhancements

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · ai2.bsky.social ·

    Today we're releasing OlmoEarth v1.2, the latest in our family of open foundation models for Earth observation. 🌍

    Today we're releasing OlmoEarth v1.2, the latest in our family of open foundation models for Earth observation. 🌍 We've switched to rotary positional embeddings (RoPE), which reduces artifacts in the embeddings & gives a small performance boost. 🧵

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