New Talk: Building Olmo 3 Think

It’s finally here! The public (and most complete) version of my talk covering every stage of the process to build Olmo 3 (interconnects.ai/p/olmo-3-americas-truly-open-…) Think (slides (docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rhXAPyaflqi5cB…) are available). I’ve been giving this, improving it, and getting great feedback at other venues such as The Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) & The PyTorch Conference.This involves changes and new considerations of every angle of the stack, from pretraining, evaluation, and of course post-training.
Most of the talk focuses on reinforcement learning infrastructure and evaluating reasoning models, with quick comments on every training stage. I hope you enjoy it, and let us know what to improve in the future!
Chapters
* 00:00:00 Introduction
* 00:06:30 Pretraining Architecture
* 00:09:25 Midtraining Data
* 00:11:08 Long-context Necessity
* 00:13:04 Building SFT Data
* 00:20:05 Reasoning DPO Surprises
* 00:24:47 Scaling RL
* 00:41:05 Evaluation Overview
* 00:48:50 Evaluation Reflections
* 01:00:25 Conclusions
Here’s the YouTube link:

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