OpenWALDO launches to build collaborative community for open-source AI
Rocky Linux founder launches OpenWALDO: an open-source alternative to Hugging Face for AI training data.
Why it matters
A new community-led platform for curating and distributing open AI training data could reshape how open-source models are built — and who controls the corpus.
The key facts
9 to knowGregory Kutzer (Rocky Linux, CentOS, Apptainer founder) leading the project
Sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc.
Positioned as open-source alternative to Hugging Face's model distribution
Community-led, open-source-governed training data corpus
Launched August 11, 2026
OpenWALDO launched by Gregory Kutzer (Rocky Linux, CentOS, Apptainer founder)
Positioned as Hugging Face alternative for community-governed AI training data corpus
Community-led, open-source-governed model
Distributed training data focus (vs. Hugging Face's open-weight model distribution)
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Publisher excerpt: 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…