Full development of 7B and 32B Olmo 3 models used 12.3 GWh datacenter energy and emitted 4,251 tCO2eq, with development overheads accounting for 82% of compute and reasoning models costing 17x more to post-train than instruction-tuned ones.
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Creatives prefer self-experimentation over structured guidance for GenAI image tools to preserve creative freedom, even when guidance aids AI literacy.
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The Hidden Cost of Thinking: Energy Use and Environmental Impact of LMs Beyond Pretraining
Full development of 7B and 32B Olmo 3 models used 12.3 GWh datacenter energy and emitted 4,251 tCO2eq, with development overheads accounting for 82% of compute and reasoning models costing 17x more to post-train than instruction-tuned ones.
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How Creatives Approach GenAI Image Generation: Tensions Between Structured Guidance, Self-Experimentation, and Creative Autonomy
Creatives prefer self-experimentation over structured guidance for GenAI image tools to preserve creative freedom, even when guidance aids AI literacy.