Rocky Linux Founder Kurtzer Launches OpenWALDO to Open Up AI Training Data
Open weights have become something of a civil war in AI circles. That continues to be a real rarity in AI circles. Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of Rocky Linux and a co-founder of CentOS, wants to change that with the release of OpenWALDO, a community-governed open-source project intended to create a shared, auditable corpus of AI training data and code.
- ▪Open weights have become something of a civil war in AI circles.
- ▪That continues to be a real rarity in AI circles.
- ▪Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of Rocky Linux and a co-founder of CentOS, wants to change that with the release of OpenWALDO, a community-governed open-source project intended to create a shared, auditable corpus of AI training data and code.
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Open weights have become something of a civil war in AI circles. True open-source AI? That continues to be a real rarity in AI circles. Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of Rocky Linux and a co-founder of CentOS, wants to change that with the release of OpenWALDO, a community-governed open-source project intended to create a shared, auditable corpus of AI training data and code. OpenWALDO, short for Open Weights, Artifacts, Licenses, Data and Origins, says it will make training data behave more like an open-source dependency: named, reviewable, versioned, attributable and verifiable. Backed by Kurtzer’s enterprise infrastructure company CIQ, it’s designed to address a persistent gap in the “open” AI movement.
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