{
  "id": 756167,
  "title": "Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/mozillas-cto-thinks-ai-should-be-built-like-the-internet",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-13T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rest of World Tech",
    "slug": "rest-of-world-tech",
    "url": "https://restofworld.org/2026/open-source-ai-infrastructure-mozilla/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer, Raffi Krikorian, argues that artificial intelligence should be developed like the internet. In a recent report, the free software community and nonprofit project found that the performance gap between leading open-source models and proprietary systems like Claude and ChatGPT has narrowed to just 3%. Krikorian believes that organizations require alternatives to proprietary AI systems to maintain greater control over their data and infrastructure. As businesses increasingly experiment with open and open-weight models, Krikorian suggests that policymakers view AI as infrastructure rather than a product. He notes that the open-source, open-weight AI ecosystem is growing rapidly, with Alibaba's open-source model Qwen being downloaded more times than the next eight models combined in February 2026. Open-source AI models may appear complex and risky to the uninitiated, but they offer significant benefits in terms of price-performance and data control for regulated industries. Krikorian hopes that the government will recognize the potential of open-source AI and support its development.",
  "summary": "Raffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can customize and control.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}