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13 Aug 2026, 12:57 AM	The Register	5.5	OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models Gregory Kurtzer, founder of CentOS and Rocky Linux, has launched OpenWALDO—a project to build a shared, open-source AI training dataset with full provenance and a bill of materials. Funded by his AI infrastructure company CIQ, the effort currently targets 167 billion transparent tokens, a fraction of the trillions used by major AI labs. The project argues that even 'open-weight' models hide their training data, creating legal and compliance risk for downstream users. Why: If you ship products using open-weight models, you currently have no auditable trail for training data lineage—OpenWALDO's 'bill of materials' concept could eventually let you point to a verified baseline corpus and reduce copyright/consent exposure. But at 167B tokens today versus trillions in proprietary datasets, this is not yet something you can train a competitive model on; treat it as a project to watch, not a dataset to use. open-source training-data ai-transparency compliance

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13 Aug 2026, 12:57 AM

The Register

5.5

OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models

Gregory Kurtzer, founder of CentOS and Rocky Linux, has launched OpenWALDO—a project to build a shared, open-source AI training dataset with full provenance and a bill of materials. Funded by his AI infrastructure company CIQ, the effort currently targets 167 billion transparent tokens, a fraction of the trillions used by major AI labs. The project argues that even 'open-weight' models hide their training data, creating legal and compliance risk for downstream users.

Why: If you ship products using open-weight models, you currently have no auditable trail for training data lineage—OpenWALDO's 'bill of materials' concept could eventually let you point to a verified baseline corpus and reduce copyright/consent exposure. But at 167B tokens today versus trillions in proprietary datasets, this is not yet something you can train a competitive model on; treat it as a project to watch, not a dataset to use.