Mozilla establishes an open AI development company 'Mozilla.ai' to break down 'AI of a large company covered in secrets'

Mozilla, known for the development of Firefox and others, has announced the establishment of a startup `` Mozilla.ai '' aiming to build an open source AI ecosystem. The investment from Mozilla is expected to reach $ 30 million (about 3.9 billion yen).

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Research on AI has continued for many years, but in 2022 high-performance AI such as image generation AI such as 'Stable Diffusion', 'Midjourney', and 'DALL E', chat AI 'ChatGPT', and transcription AI 'Whisper' AI has appeared one after another. In addition, in 2023, many AI-related products will be announced, such as ' Bing equipped with chat AI ', 'Announcement of Adobe's content generation AI ' Firefly '', and 'Announcement of Google's AI ' Bard ''.

Due to the rapid progress of AI-related products such as those mentioned above, an environment is being established in which users can use AI to perform paperwork and generate content. About this situation, Microsoft founder Bill Gates describes it as `` revolutionary progress since the appearance of the graphical user interface (GUI) '', and AI is `` improving production '', `` managing health conditions '', `` new drugs He points out that a society is being realized in which it is used for a wide variety of purposes, such as development and education.

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The development of AI is progressing rapidly, but most of the AI available to users is developed by major technology companies such as Google, Adobe, and Microsoft, and there are cases where the mechanism of AI and the use of personal information are unclear. There are many. In addition, the AI development group 'OpenAI', which developed ChatGPT and Whisper, had the philosophy of 'developing AI with open source and releasing as much information as possible' when it was first established. In May, the co-founder of OpenAI announced a policy to keep the data private on the grounds that ``AI has become too powerful, making it easier for AI to harm others.'' increase.

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As mentioned above, as AI development companies continue to keep their data private, Mozilla established `` Mozilla.ai '' as `` a company that develops AI while ensuring openness and transparency and fulfilling accountability. announced. In addition, it also revealed that it will invest $ 30 million (about 3.9 billion yen) in the company.

Mozilla.ai's initial goal is to develop a ``tool that makes content generation AI (generative AI) safe and transparent'' and a ``content recommendation system that prevents the spread of false information'', and will achieve results in the next few months. I plan to publish the item.

In announcing the establishment of Mozilla.ai, Mozilla said, ``Mozilla.ai functions as a place where founders, developers, researchers, and product managers who share the same philosophy gather outside the framework of major technology companies. We believe that by working collectively with people who share our ideals, we can create a 'decentralized trustworthy AI ecosystem' as a true counterweight to the status quo.'

In addition, Mozilla.ai is looking for developers and cooperating companies on the following pages.

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