--- title: Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here description: Mozilla has published its inaugural State of Open Source AI report, based on a survey of 950+ developers. Key findings: the performance gap between open and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mozilla-s-inaugural-state-of-open-source-ai-report-is-here-sfgwhiv1g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here | daily.dev og:description: Mozilla has published its inaugural State of Open Source AI report, based on a survey of 950+ developers. Key findings: the performance gap between open and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mozilla-s-inaugural-state-of-open-source-ai-report-is-here-sfgwhiv1g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sFGWhIv1G.png og:image:alt: Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here **[Mozilla](https://daily.dev/sources/mozilla)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mozilla has published its inaugural State of Open Source AI report, based on a survey of 950+ developers. Key findings: the performance gap between open and proprietary AI models has narrowed to just 3%, while costs have dropped up to 50x in three years. Despite 79% of developers using open models, only 51% have deployed them in production versus 63% for closed models, pointing to missing infrastructure and tooling rather than model quality issues. China and East Asia lead global open source AI adoption at 89%. The report also highlights that the critical battleground has shifted from models to the agentic layer — the software controlling what AI can see, remember, and do — which currently operates with few guardrails. Open models power roughly a third of real-world AI usage but capture only 4% of revenue, raising sustainability concerns for the open ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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