The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.

AI training data has a big price tag, one best-suited for deep-pocketed tech firms. This is why Harvard University plans to release a dataset that

Data is the new oil, as they say, and perhaps that makes Harvard University the new Exxon. The school announced Thursday the launch of a dataset containing nearly one million public domain books that can be used for training AI models.

Harvard University, in conjunction with Google, has released a dataset of a million public domain books to train the next generation of AI. The books span genres, languages, and authors such as Dickens,