OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models

A new project aims to build a shared, open source AI training dataset that anyone can contribute to, much like an open source software project. It aims to make training data more transparent than that of many open-weight models that have recently taken the industry by storm. CentOS and Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer is behind the effort, dubbed Open Weights, Artifacts, Licenses, Data, Origins (OpenWALDO), and it's funded by CIQ, his AI infrastructure company, which also sponsors Rocky Linux. Kurtzer described the effort as trying to bring the open-source ethos to AI model design, which has yet to be truly open – even downloadable open-weight models still have closed-source training data that is unknown to users, alongside other...

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