OpenWALDO launches to build collaborative community for open-source AI
OpenWALDO, a new open-source artificial intelligence project sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc., launched today, led by Gregory Kutzer, the founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS and Apptainer.
The project aims to build a community-led, open-source-governed corpus of AI training data. It will provide a space similar to Hugging Face Inc., which primarily distributes open-weight models, where every builder can innovate a shared foundation of information instead of duplicating their own.
Open-weight models are powerful because they allow users to download and run AI models anywhere. This has been an extremely valuable milestone, opening up models that can run on consumer hardware or in the cloud without the need for specialized proprietary hardware or hidden within the proprietary depths of centralized corporations.
However, open-weight models lack something important: They ship without the code, methods, recipes and training data needed to regenerate them. That’s where open-source models come in.
