Mozilla, the company behind the popular web browser Firefox, is investing $30 million to develop its own AI ecosystem to compete with Google and Microsoft.
Mozilla invests $30 million in Mozilla.ai
The company isn’t trying to outshine any of the tech giants, but rather create AI tools that are safe, transparent and helpful. Mozilla says the “big tech and cloud companies with the most power and influence” in the market aren’t interested in building open-source, trustworthy AI products.
Mozilla wants to change that before "incumbents continue to consolidate their control of the market." To that end, the officially named Mozilla.ai will hopefully become a space outside of the big tech companies where "like-minded founders, developers, scientists, product managers, and builders can come together."
“We believe that this group of people, by pulling together, can turn the tide and create an independent, decentralized, and trusted AI ecosystem — a true counterbalance to the status quo,” the company wrote in the blog post announcing the investment.
