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Dolma

Allen Institute for AI
open / Overall score: 2.5

Open pretraining corpus of roughly 3 trillion tokens drawn from Common Crawl web text, academic publications, code, books and encyclopedic material. It was created by the Allen Institute for AI and used to train the OLMo family, and the release includes a toolkit for replicating and curating the data.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
ODC-BY
ungated
yes
dataset_card
yes
code
apache-2.0-toolkit

Permissively licensed (ODC-BY), ungated download with a full dataset card and replication toolkit.

  • https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/allenai/dolma recorded 2026-09-29

    Hub API reports the dataset as not gated and ODC-BY licensed, with tags "license:odc-by" and the dataset description "Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research".

  • https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/dolma recorded 2026-09-29

    Hugging Face dataset page for allenai/dolma renders the card ("Dolma is a dataset of 3 trillion tokens from a diverse mix of web content, academic publications, code, books, and encyclopedic materials") with the license tag "odc-by".

  • https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/dolma/raw/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

    Dataset card front matter declares "license: odc-by" and the card describes "Dolma is a dataset of 3 trillion tokens from a diverse mix of web content, academic publications, code, books, and encyclopedic materials."

Adoption

2 high confidence
2.0

Adoption is measured by Hugging Face downloads of the dataset over the trailing month, the only usage channel on record for Dolma.

Capability

3 high confidence
3.0

Dolma trained OLMo 1/2 and OLMoE, but the FineWeb paper's own ablation ranks it behind FineWeb, and Ai2 has since superseded it with Dolma 3.

  • https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3 recorded 2026-09-29

    Ai2 Olmo 3 announcement says "Olmo 3 is pretrained on" Dolma 3, "a new ~9.3-trillion-token corpus".

  • https://arxiv.org/html/2406.17557 recorded 2026-09-29

    FineWeb paper HTML lists Dolma among the compared corpora: "the Common Crawl-based part of Dolma 1.6 (3T tokens) and 1.7 (1.2T tokens)", and states that the FineWeb model "outperforms all other open datasets we compared on our aggregate group of tasks".

Verified 2026-09-27