OPEN-1B: the world's first fully auditable transformer training run announced

benfielding · x · 2026-09-20

benfielding's team announced OPEN-1B, billed as the world's first fully auditable transformer training run: every step of AI training and inference can be logged and audited, providing proof of the training data, recipe, biases, and weights.

The author also pitched the concept of 'Auditable Intelligence' to policymakers as a direction for AI transparency. A notable verifiable-training effort for anyone tracking training data provenance and model trustworthiness.

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