researchers-and-experts/mozilla-krikorian-open-source-turning-point

Quote / Position

“Open source AI has reached a turning point. It’s no longer about expanding access to models; it’s about who has the power to shape, audit, and improve them. Without investment in the infrastructure, tooling, and governance around open models, we risk locking in a system where only restrictive, closed AI can scale – and that doesn’t serve the public interest, or sovereignty over tech policy decisions.”

Context

Krikorian’s framing is the load-bearing Mozilla CTO statement on the open-source AI moment. Two structurally important moves:

1. The shift from “models” to “infrastructure, tooling, and governance” — the work is at the harness layer, not the model layer.
2. The “sovereignty over tech policy decisions” framing — open source as a sovereignty question, not just a capability question.

Both moves have direct application to the field guide’s data-governance and data-rights-framework work.

Source

Mozilla. Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here. July 14, 2026. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-state-of-open-source-ai-report/