The artificial intelligence revolution continues its course. The new contender in this world that is still taking its first steps is Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, which is reportedly creating a new startup called Mozilla.ai with which it hopes to “build a reliable and independent open source AI ecosystem”. The project has a $30 million investment from Mozilla and is led by AI researcher and scientist Moez Draief.
“Working on trusted AI for almost five years, I’ve constantly felt a mix of excitement and anxiety,” Mark Surman, Mozilla’s executive chairman and head of Mozilla.ai, told TechCrunch in an interview.
“The last month or two of rapid announcements of great AI technologies has been no different. There are really exciting new technologies coming out, new tools that have immediately encouraged artists, founders…all kinds of people to do new things. The anxiety comes when you realize that almost no one is looking at protections,” Surman said.
Mozilla’s CEO refers to the absence of strong protections in the launches of the different AI models we have seen in recent months, which would prevent the malicious use of artificial intelligences. Two of these examples are ChatGPT, the OpenAI AI, which could create malware and phishing websites almost identical to the original websites, and Stable Diffusion, with which deepfakes of a pornographic nature and very graphic images inciting violence have been generated.
According to Surman, Mozilla.ai is a research company and community dedicated to helping create AIs that are open source, independent and reliable. The startup’s priority will be to create a team of about 25 engineers, scientists and product managers working on “reliable” recommender systems and large linguistic models similar to OpenAI’s GPT-4.
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