Hello,

If you read the news you probably find yourself learning more and more about AI. AI isn’t just in the news, it’s part of our everyday lives.

As products like ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion gain popularity we, as a society, are faced with two truths: AI has the power to do real good, and cause real harm. At Mozilla, we've been highlighting this for several years and now we've decided to make a big investment in the future of AI.

Last week, we announced the launch of Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — that will build a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem. Mozilla will make an initial $30M investment in the company.

The vision for Mozilla.ai is to influence the industry not just through policy, but through building technology as well. Mozilla.ai will be a space outside big tech and academia for like-minded founders, developers, scientists, product managers and builders to gather.

It’s clear that Mozilla’s next chapter needs to include efforts to shape the future of AI using the values in our Manifesto — and to do this using both the market and the movement sides of Mozilla’s personality. We hope you’ll join us.

Curious to learn more? Read about our announcement on TechCrunch and share it with people who you think will be excited about Mozilla’s plans for the future.

Best,

Mark Surman

Executive Director
Mozilla Foundation