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Figure 44: OLMo 3 7B · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
DenseAi2 🇺🇸 · November 20, 2025

OLMo 3 (7B)

New transparent Allen AI model that keeps OLMo's post-norm flavor while modernizing context handling.

Key detail

Retains post-norm, keeps MHA, and applies YaRN only on global layers.

Parameters

7B

Context

64K

KV / token

512 KiB

Fact sheet

Scale
7B parameters
Context window
65,536 tokens
Decoder type
Dense
Attention
MHA with QK-Norm and 3:1 sliding-window/global attention
Layer mix
24 sliding-window + 8 global
KV cache / token (bf16)
512 KiB · Very high
License
Apache License 2.0
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

100%

Dense: every weight runs for every token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

512 KiB

Smaller than 3% of models in the atlas. How it’s calculated

AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Source

5.2

Scientific
2.9

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