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The Future of Mozilla: What Lies Ahead?

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For the longest time, Mozilla was synonymous with the Firefox browser, but for the last few years, Mozilla has started to look beyond Firefox, especially as its browser’s importance continues to wane. Late last month, I sat down with Mozilla’s president and executive director, Mark Surman, to discuss what’s next for Mozilla — and what that means for the fans and Firefox. “Mozilla AI, which had a broad mandate around finding open source, trustworthy AI opportunities and build a business around them. Meanwhile, the open source and AI communities are still figuring out what exactly open source AI is going to look like. “The question that we’re asking ourselves now is: What’s the pop-up blocker for the AI era?