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OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models

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OpenWALDO is a new open-source project aimed at creating a shared, transparent AI training dataset that anyone can contribute to. Founded by Gregory Kurtzer, who also created Rocky Linux, the project challenges the industry norm of secret training data by offering a verified, auditable alternative. Currently holding 167 billion tokens, it still has a long way to go against frontier models trained on tens of trillions.

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