Needing to reach performance parity with closed source frontier models is the prevailing north star for open source AI – and this is an important goal!

Here, John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, makes the case for a different north star: ease of use. Open source AI can win if it becomes dead easy to use, the simple default option for the 99% of AI use cases that don’t require the newest frontier mega-model.

The missing piece is being so easy to install, maintain, and use that customers aren’t tempted to default elsewhere. That means our community moving beyond benchmarks to beautifying UI/UX, reducing jargon, building catchy apps, and meeting the modal end-user where they are – not just on GitHub or Hugging Face, but rather in the address bar of a browser or the app store.

​Throughout, Jojn will talk about some of the decisions we are making at Mozilla to support the “choice-first stack,” a portfolio of commercially-licensed open source AI projects meant to take steps toward making open source AI more approachable, maintainable, and usable.

Tuesday, July 7, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM GMT+4
2a Halabyan St, Yerevan, Armenia

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