Gaming: Mozilla Says It's Building A 'rebel Alliance' To Challenge Big Tech...

The company has its own, apparently more open ideas for the future of AI.

Mozilla has been carving out a space for itself in this new and frightfully fast-growing world of AI. Last month, there was backlash when it announced that Firefox would "evolve into a modern AI browser." Since then, it seems Mozilla has been clarifying what exactly this means, possibly in an attempt to reassure those who are worried the browser might become too AI-centric. And now, it's even going as far as to characterise itself as helping build a "rebel alliance" against Big Tech.

The company has released an animation- and graphic-heavy roadmap and report, which in many ways reads like a very dramatic vision statement about how it can challenge the way that AI is developing at the hands of Big Tech. It's kind of bonkers, but in a way that I can't help but get on board with.

"What if a rebel alliance of sorts—developers, activists, researchers, founders, investors—joined forces to build something different?"

It envisions that this alliance will "push AI in a direction that is trustworthy, human-centered and shaped by all of us." Which I suppose explains the focus on turning Firefox into an "AI browser."

Regarding this, Mozilla does clarify that its vision for Firefox is one of optional and opt-in AI features. For 2026, it wants an opt-in Firefox AI Window and AI Controls that "give users one central place to manage AI features, even disable them completely. Don’t want AI? Turn it off."

It's not all about Firefox, though. The changes it envisions are in part intended to arrive through investing in Firefox, of course, as well as Thunderbird, but also "investing in community", "investing in responsible tech startups", "building open-source AI dev tools", and "improving the open-source AI stack."

"Of course," Mozilla says, "big tech has bigger assets. But that doesn't mean we can't challenge them. Our assets are aimed at helping a whole ecosystem grow—and at creating an alliance that can transform tech."

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Despite people not liking movement towards AI, Mozilla is angling this as in line with how it's always been, because it's sticking to its original manifesto, in particular a few principles: human agency, decentralisation and open-source, a balance of commercial and public benefit. Its new focus fits in with what Mozilla claims is a direction that maintains "a ‘double bottom line

Source: PC Gamer