Products & ServicesEvent: September 3, 2026
Open Athena launched a 535 billion parameter MoE model with a ten-person team.
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“the ten-person team launched a 535 billion parameter MoE model”
— Open Athena team
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Open Athena
Open Athena is a nonprofit that accelerates scientific research with capabilities from the AI frontier
- Industry
- Research Services
- Location
- New York City, US
- Company size
- 24 employees
AI is transforming how discovery happens, but the ability to build and adapt large foundation models is concentrated inside industry. Open Athena provides labs with engineers, compute, and coordination to transform promising prototypes into breakthrough foundation models that are developed openly and sustained within academic systems.
Founded 2024