Data owners are increasingly seeking ways to protect their data from AI companies due to concerns around consent and compensation.
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has introduced FlexOlmo, an architecture that allows models to be trained on private datasets without sharing raw data.
FlexOlmo lets data owners train separate models on their own data, which are later merged into a shared model using the mixture of experts (MoE) approach.
While FlexOlmo may be complex for some model developers, it offers a new collaborative AI development paradigm that allows data owners to participate on their own terms.