Mozilla is forming a ‘rebel alliance’ to take on the AI heavyweights

6 February 2026

Mozilla, developer of web browser Firefox, and email app Thunderbird, among other things, is forming an AI “rebel alliance” to counter the industry’s big players, writes Ashley Capoot, at CNBC:

Surman is building what he’s described as “a rebel alliance of sorts,” using a phrase that’s long been part of Mozilla’s lexicon. In this case, the alliance is a loose network of tech startups, developers and public interest technologists committed to making AI more open and trustworthy and to checking the power of industry heavyweights like OpenAI and Anthropic.

The industry heavyweights the alliance is up against are well entrenched. Some sort of counterbalance however can’t be a bad thing.

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