Common Crawl
A nonprofit foundation that operates the largest freely available source of web crawl data, providing petabytes of crawled web pages for research and AI development. Founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, it democratizes access to web-scale data previously only available to large search engine corporations.
data centersai infrastructure softwareopen sourceresearch website ↗ AI Adjacency 51/100 Confidence 80%
Why it matters to AI
Common Crawl operates within the AI industrial ecosystem across data centers, ai infrastructure software, open source, research. Its role sits and upstream of 7 dependencies.
AI Dependency Map
Customers & Partners
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Claims & Evidence
Common Crawl is the largest freely available source of web crawl data and has become pivotal to the development of generative AI.
✓ verified 95% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl has been used by AI companies including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon to train large language models.
✓ verified 90% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl hosts several AI-training data sets derived from its crawls, including one for Nvidia, the most valuable company in the world.
✓ verified 85% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, who previously co-founded Applied Semantics, acquired by Google in 2003 for $102 million.
✓ verified 90% confidence · 1 source(s)
The entire Common Crawl archive is hosted through the AWS Open Data program, meaning anyone can access it without paying storage costs.
✓ verified 90% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl began collecting data in 2008 using a custom Hadoop-based crawler with a PageRank implementation.
✓ verified 85% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl releases monthly datasets containing petabytes of crawled web pages including raw WARC files, text-only extractions, metadata, and outlink graphs.
✓ verified 85% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl democratizes access to web-scale data that was previously only available to companies with massive crawling budgets.
✓ verified 90% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl's database is large enough to be measured in petabytes.
✓ verified 85% confidence · 1 source(s)
Common Crawl collaborates with organizations including Open Web Search, Software Heritage, and Tola Capital.
✓ verified 70% confidence · 1 source(s)
Data Confidence
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