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Comment by bdhcuidbebe | Hacker News Reader

What is mozilla-ai?

Seems like reputation parasitism.

Common question, thanks for asking! We’re a public benefit corporation focused on democratizing access to AI tech, on enabling non-AI experts to benefit from and control their own AI tools, and on empowering the open source AI ecosystem. Our majority shareholder is the Mozilla Foundation - the other shareholders being our employees, soon :). As access to knowledge and people shifts due to AI, we’re working to make sure people retain choice, ownership, privacy, and dignity.

We're very small compared to the Mozilla mothership, but moving quickly to support open source AI in any way we can.

Many thanks for a detailed response! TIL!

It is an official Mozilla Foundation subsidiary. Their website is here: https://www.mozilla.ai/

Interesting. I made my comment after visiting their repo and website. Didnt see a pixel worth of the mozilla brand there, hence my comment.

On a second visit I notice a link to mozilla.org on their footer.

Still doesent ring official by me from being a veteran mozilla user (netscape, mdn, firefox) but ok, thanks for the explanation.

I agree it's not very clear. They would do well to mention it somewhere besides the main site footer because it would probably help adoption / community / testing too. That said, any company with a lawyer wouldn't let that stand as a name-squat for long.

Good feedback. Some of this is intentional - as an independent and growing ~20-person company, we're able to operate more quickly than the larger Mozilla organizations, and we're purposefully distancing ourselves from the associated bureaucracy that comes with any large organization. We are very much in line with the Mozilla ethos around personal ownership, privacy, control, and agency. We're figuring out how to best push on those principles in the world of AI, and appreciate feedback and contributions from the community.

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