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OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models

The OpenWALDO project has launched an initiative to build an open-source alternative to proprietary large language models by releasing 167 billion transparent training tokens. While this effort seeks to increase transparency in AI development, the project faces a significant scaling challenge as it attempts to compete with the multi-trillion token datasets currently utilized by major industry players.

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