ONR IRL: Mozilla CTO @raffi Chats OSAI with Developers live from MozFest 2026.
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#MozFest#'s Developers Wilding: Online runs Oct. 28 to Nov. 11. Build with Otari, @MozillaAI’s open-source platform, using any model you choose. First prize wins $1,000 + engineer mentoring. The first 200 people to sign-up on Otari get $20 in tokens.
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The internet you remember is still out there. The early days of the internet may be behind us, but the spirit doesn’t have to be. Experience it for yourself.
The #MozFest# team has officially arrived in Barcelona and we're wasting no time getting into production mode ⚡ grab your ticket and join us in 4 DAYS in Barcelona
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The people building a better digital world are in one room in Barcelona. You can still pull up a chair… from your house.
Owners Not Renters is streaming live from MozFest 2026 on Oct. 27 at 18:20 CET. Join @Marcus_Rein_ , @raffi Krikorian, @jordimash, and @fabriciocarraro for a conversation about the evolution of open source AI.
Bring your questions for the audience Q&A!
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Every technology carries a legacy.
Mark Surman is joining the MozFest Main Stage to discuss what we leave for the generations that come after us. Get your badge and see you at MozFest. (25% off with code MS25OFF)
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Something’s coming to #MozFest#. And you don’t even need a plane ticket to participate.
Introducing MozFest's Developers Wilding Online Hackathon! Full details will be announced during the next ONR livestream Thursday, October 22 at 9am ET with @Marcus_Rein_ and Alejandro Gonzalez from @MozillaAI.
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Open source models are rapidly narrowing the gap between closed ones and the concerns are real. At the same time, people are building ethical, human-first efforts. It all comes down to how AI is built, audited and used.
This is just one of the conversations from the latest Owners Not Renters livestream featuring Alejandro Gonzalez and Thomas Bille, and Brian Mbuba. Watch the replay and stay tuned for more information about our next live show.
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open models are free to download and you can take them anywhere. so the meter moved to the things you can’t take with you when you leave: the cache, your memory, and the gateway.
when one company owns the router and the payment rail, it knows exactly how much it would cost you to leave. run a router you control. route on cost. keep a second model warm.
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Funding and revenue matter for AI companies but trust might be the asset that decides the next steps for AI deployment.
Mozilla along with 70 organizations across 15 countries is supporting the launch of the Trustworthy AI Map. The goal is to build infrastructure for AI you can actually trust.
Learn more about the Trustworthy AI Map.👇
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thank you to everyone who joined me and @mkrigsman on @cxotalk last week. the conversation was insighful. the questions were sharp.
watch the replay here:
Everyone’s asking how fast to adopt AI. We’re asking who gets to own it.
On Nov. 4, Mark Surman is joining @ftlive’s Future of AI Summit in London to make the case for open, accountable AI.
Join in person or online:
#FTFutureofAI#
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capability gains in AI no longer require a new model.
the model and the harness still matter, but real results happen when working on an open base.
in july, DeepSeek ran a post-training pass that lifted V4-Flash 21 points on Terminal Bench and 10 on the AA index.
same model. same architecture. same size.
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As of last month, open models are winning requests.
Google held #1# on OpenRouter for 51 straight weeks. On Aug 3, DeepSeek passed them. DeepSeek weekly requests grew 12.6x since Sep 2025. We predicted this in v1 of the report. Whoever wins tokens wins requests.
Closed providers' share fell from 54% to 44% since May. The model is a commodity now, and the lock-in has moved up a layer. v1.1 of the State of Open Source AI report is live today.
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Middle powers can win by building "roads", and focusing less on building "engines." @InstituteGC builds on the findings of our recent report The State of Open Source AI to argue for investing in the AI harness.
Read about it here:
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Open models are ~50x cheaper than closed ones.
Mozilla CTO @raffi talks about the economics of open source AI, the "amnesiac" problem with agent memory, and why concentration risk isn't just about who's closed — it's about who's open, too.
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The GPT-6 Astra launch just leveled up game development. It also gave Mozilla CTO @raffi Krikorian an idea for an open-weight experiment.
One prompt. Six open-weight models. Four coding harnesses, identical instructions.
Read what happend when he ran it on Owners, Not Renters. Subscribe today.
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In July, we said whoever wins the tokens will eventually win requests as well.
In August, it happened. DeepSeek, an open model, took the top spot for request volume in the market, overtaking Google.
V1.1 of our State of Open Source AI report tracks how people are putting the model to work and where the real value is now.
Get ready, the full report drops next week.
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You don't own the AI you use every day. Most people are renting access that's controlled by a few companies.
Mozilla CTO @raffi sat down with @0xsachi to make the case for a different relationship with technology and the future of open source AI.
Watch the full conversation on @opencommonspod
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We call it a platform for a reason. You go onto someone else's turf to post, to connect with your friends, and then the rug gets pulled out from under you.
My conversation with @raffi, CTO of @mozilla, is live on @opencommonspod.
He scaled Twitter's infrastructure, put the first self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh at Uber, then walked away to rebuild the DNC's cybersecurity after 2016. Now he wants us to be owners of our AI, not renters of it.
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Want a backstage pass to MozFest 2026?
The call for Mozilla Festival volunteers is now open 🎉 apply now by September 15 and join us and build something better.
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