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Training data
What models learn from: web crawls, books, and licensed or unlicensed corpora; who holds what has not been scraped yet, and on what terms.
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2026
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reviewThe Web Was the Training Set
Tim Berners-Lee's memoir is the story of a British engineer at a Franco-Swiss lab giving a protocol away. Read in 2026, it is also the origin story of AI's data supply.
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The Bottleneck Is Data, and Europe Is Sitting on It
Frontier AI is running short on public text, not compute. Europe's edge is the high-quality data it never put online. Capturing it needs coordination.