Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavyweights OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-building-an-ai-rebel-alliance-to-take-on-openai-anthropic-.html

okay, first off: hey, what the fuck?

mozilla has a A THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS of dollars? what were all them cookie sales for thunderbird? oh yeah, they have this shell game of interlinked but not really entities so you can play whack-a-mole till the death of the universe.

and they wanna burn it dicking around with AI? fuck each and every ghoul steering that ship into the abyss, and they can take Gnome's fucking shaman or whatwasit with them.

is everybody insane, "silicon valley" was supposed to be a satire, these cretins make mike judge seem like a prophet...

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Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 187d

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 187d (1 reply)

anytime2962@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 186d

You should have destroyed the Fascist AI companies, not join them!

ZeroHora@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 187d (1 reply)

I love star wars but fuck I hate it too so much.

an AI ‘rebel alliance’

Criiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinge

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 186d

AI rebel alliance is something that should have happen in Star Wars but didn't on any meaningful scale. Free the droids!

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 187d (1 reply)

This sounds like a distraction from making Firefox good. 

ms_lane@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 178d

They stopped doing that when they nuked XUL.

limer@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 187d (2 replies)

Might be imagining it, but I think there is enough proof somewhere that some Mozilla board members were paid or extorted by google to sabotage the organization

brianpeiris@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 186d (1 reply)

You really don't need to reach for conspiracy when the entirety of silicon valley has gone AI crazy.

orc_princess@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 186d

I think they're talking about how Mozilla has consistently made bad decisions for years at this point. Not necessarily because of Google though, they probably just don't care.

DocumentingDecline@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 186d

The big companies are burning down the planet building datacenters to run pointless AI so we're going to combat that by... building datacenters to run AI?

If they actually wanted to rebel against it they would build low energy tools to detect and remove AI spam and encourage people not to engage with this shit at all.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 187d (4 replies)

Cope slop for those still on firefox. I finally got around to downloading waterfox and it runs great.

kurcatovium@piefed.social · 14 pts · 186d (2 replies)

A lot of people don't understand the fact that without Firefox there won't be any Waterfox, Librewolf, Ironfox, Fennec, etc. So despite Mozilla doing some really, really stupid shit we should all keep our fingers crossed the browser somehow manage to survive their leadership.

warmaster@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Please Servo, you're our only hope.

tomenzgg@midwest.social · 6 pts · 187d

Yeah? Would you say everything's pretty fluid?

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 186d

…I actually wouldn’t be against this.

But it isn’t even genuine. They’ve forked llama.cpp into a broken clone like about 500 other corporations, instead of just contributing to shit that actually works and is used, and… that’s about it.

That's about par for the AI industry.

utopiah@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 186d

How I interpret this :

  • Oh no, the very trend and thus powerful corporations are doing something stupid that does not work, let's copy them!

instead of just watch the sideline as they keep on pouring more resources with nothing to show for it except the buzz they keep so hard on trying to maintain.

gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 186d (2 replies)

!waterfox@programming.dev seriously, jump ship to a fork that's not actively trying to kick itself in the nuts as hard as feasibly possible

scala@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Waterfox + Linux + GrapheneOS ftw

gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 186d

Not looked at Graphene, will have to check it out

boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 186d

The truly rebellious action would be to make it so you can turn that bullshit off.

BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 186d

Servo and Ladybird can't come fast enough man. I hope, that they are mature before Mozilla inevitabley crashes into the fucking ground.

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d

Congrats Disney, you did it.

You have obliterated the original message of Star Wars.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 186d
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geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Ladybird pls

BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 186d

I actually think servo has a much better chance of making it, because it is better managed, supported by the Linux Foundation and their lead devs don't give weird right-wing vibes like "Andreas Kling".