Mozilla launches AI startup Mozilla.ai

 

Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization behind the Firefox web browser, established a new AI-focused startup called Mozilla.ai.   Mozilla's parent organization, the Mozilla Foundation, made a $30M seed investment into the newly formed entity.  The new company was launched with a view to building an open-source and "trustworthy" AI. Mozilla.ai will be headed by Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla.  Surman is joined by managing director Moez Draief, former chief scientist at Huawei's Noah's Ark AI lab and Capgemini. The firm intends to use the proceeds to build a team with 25 engineers and commence work on its AI model.