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Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, making money. In the best of times, these things feed each other: The company makes great products that advance its goals for the web, and the nonprofit gets to both advocate for a better web and show people what it looks like. But these are not the best of times. Mozilla has spent the last couple of years implementing layoffs and restructuring, attempting to explain how it can fight for privacy and openness when Google pays most of its bills, while trying to find its place in an increasingly frothy AI landscape.

Fun times to be the new Mozilla CEO, right? But when I put all that to Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, the company’s just-announced chief executive, he swears he sees opportunity in all the upheaval. “I think what’s actually needed now is a technology company that people can trust,” Enzor-DeMeo says. “What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.”

Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”

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[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 2 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Programs are like socks, once they get dirty, you change them. Do these people really not understand how this stuff works? Even giants can fall when enough people switch to other options

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

Oh ya? Where u gonna go? Chrome?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 10 minutes ago

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

May I introduce you to my little friend Gemini

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
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Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”

As long as it doesn't become something that is forcibly pushed in to everything I do with the browser and my actions on the browser aren't available to the LLM they go with, which it sounds like it won't be, I don't care if an AI agent exists in the software I use. Though I do feel like the working hours for this could be used in a better way, I'd love to see PWA's come to Firefox for Linux, as an example.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

And here ... we ... go

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

if only someone can make a hardfork of firefox, and not depend on it. google indirectly owns ff.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 30 minutes ago

Why do they keep going all in on AI when no one wants it?

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I’m not sure what prompted it, but I recently decided to try Opera. It’s not too bad, but I haven’t researched anything about it either. I’ll be spending more time looking it to it i suppose.

[–] RalfWausE@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Do yourself a favor and try Vivaldi, while yes, it uses Chromium under the hood, it at least is made by some of the original Opera creators

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago

Oh, will you look at that. I want to get scolded again for "making a big deal" out of AI in Firefox again. Where's that jerkface who listed all the AI features at me and told me to "stop bullshitting"? Fuckwit.

[–] LemUser@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago

There are addons which can bypass AI shit.

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