“Owners, not Renters: Mozilla’s Open Source AI Strategy” digs into what it would actually take to move from renting AI from a few platforms to owning intelligence on our own terms. Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla, will unpack Mozilla’s 2026 roadmap for an open AI stack, explaining why they believe the current trajectory—closed models, opaque data pipelines, and centralized compute—locks users and developers into “AI landlord” relationships.
Krikorian will walk through the concrete pieces Mozilla is building and backing: Mozilla.ai’s open agent and LLM libraries, efforts to make small, specialized models easy to self‑host, the Mozilla Data Collective for fair data licensing, and investments and grants aimed at creating a “LAMP stack for AI” that’s as simple as a single API call. Along the way, he’ll tie this to real economics (why companies like Pinterest saved millions moving to open stacks), lessons from the Firefox era about defaults and user choice, and a future where your Personal AI runs on infrastructure you can inspect, tune, and truly own rather than rent.
The presentation will take place in Ballroom F on Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 12:30 to 12:50
