We’re delighted to welcome back Greg Kurtzer, a longtime HPC practitioner, open source pioneer, and founder and CEO of CIQ. Greg joins us to discuss OpenWALDO, a community-led project that aims to open up the entire model-building process, from training data and its provenance to the code, tools, recipes, licenses, and resulting model weights.
Few people have done as much as Greg to turn open source ideas into infrastructure that HPC and enterprise teams rely on. His work spans CentOS, Rocky Linux, Warewulf, Apptainer, and Fuzzball for HPC and AI workloads.
Shahin, Doug, and Greg discuss what AI can learn from decades of open source software, which parts of the AI stack should be open, and how an AI bill of materials could help people see what went into a model. They also explore what it takes to run models on your own infrastructure and the broader philosophical, social, and legal questions AI raises.
Explore OpenWALDO on GitHub, join the community on Slack, or read why Greg started the project. For more on Greg’s work in open source Linux, listen to our earlier conversation in episode 67.
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