--- title: Do the models you use have an AI bill of materials? |... description: CIQ founder Gregory Kurtzer argues AI models need a bill of materials covering training data, weights, licenses and origins. He's backing OpenWALDO, a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/do-the-models-you-use-have-an-ai-bill-of-materials-ciq-s-gregory-kurtzer-xonocjffu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Do the models you use have an AI bill of materials? | CIQ’s Gregory Kurtzer | daily.dev og:description: CIQ founder Gregory Kurtzer argues AI models need a bill of materials covering training data, weights, licenses and origins. He's backing OpenWALDO, a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/do-the-models-you-use-have-an-ai-bill-of-materials-ciq-s-gregory-kurtzer-xonocjffu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xoNOcJFFU.png og:image:alt: Do the models you use have an AI bill of materials? | CIQ’s Gregory Kurtzer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Do the models you use have an AI bill of materials? | CIQ’s Gregory Kurtzer **[Dev Interrupted](https://daily.dev/sources/devinterrupted)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CIQ founder Gregory Kurtzer argues AI models need a bill of materials covering training data, weights, licenses and origins. He's backing OpenWALDO, a community-built corpus meant to make AI training data genuinely open, and warns that open weights alone don't make a model open source. The roundup also covers the Agentic AI Foundation growing from 3 to 10 hosted projects with contributions from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba. LinearB data shows AI-generated pull requests merge at 33 percent versus 85 percent for human-written ones. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is an AI bill of materials and why would a model need one? An AI bill of materials documents what went into a model, such as its training data, weights, artifacts, licenses and data origins, since companies typically control the prompts they send to a model but not what the model was built from. Gregory Kurtzer, founder of CIQ and the Rocky Linux community, is pushing the concept through OpenWALDO, a community-backed corpus addressing this gap. _Developers vetting model provenance before adoption can follow AI bill of materials efforts like OpenWALDO on daily.dev._ ### Do AI-generated pull requests merge at the same rate as human-written ones? No, AI-generated pull requests merge far less often. Across more than 8.1 million pull requests analyzed by LinearB, AI-generated PRs merged at 33 percent compared to 85 percent for human-written pull requests, suggesting AI-authored code faces more review friction or rejection before landing. _Teams tracking AI code quality trends can follow merge-rate benchmarks like this on daily.dev._ ### Does using open-weight models mean the model is open source? No, open weights alone do not make a model open source. Gregory Kurtzer explains that a model trained on copyleft code raises a licensing question that nobody has litigated yet, meaning the openness of the weights says nothing about the legal status of the training data or the resulting license obligations. _Engineers weighing model licensing risk can track this open-source-versus-open-weights debate on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI Needs Open Source Governance](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-needs-open-source-governance-izzmyoigu) · Codemotion · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [A deep dive into open-weight AI models](https://daily.dev/posts/a-deep-dive-into-open-weight-ai-models-5r7yufmf3) · Flavio Copes · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The State of Open Source AI — V1.0 · July 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-open-source-ai-v1-0-july-2026-gjzwgazbw) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The current balance of power in open models](https://daily.dev/posts/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open-models-icndfeiki) · Interconnects · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/do-the-models-you-use-have-an-ai-bill-of-materials-ciq-s-gregory-kurtzer-xonocjffu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Do the models you use have an AI bill of materials? | CIQ’s Gregory Kurtzer","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/do-the-models-you-use-have-an-ai-bill-of-materials-ciq-s-gregory-kurtzer-xonocjffu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/do-the-models-you-use-have-an-ai-bill-of-materials-ciq-s-gregory-kurtzer-xonocjffu"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T17:33:31.165Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T17:52:57.033Z","description":"CIQ founder Gregory Kurtzer argues AI models need a bill of materials covering training data, weights, licenses and origins. 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