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title: "Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/mozilla-s-inaugural-state-of-open-source-ai-report-is-here-sfgwhiv1g
source_url: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-state-of-open-source-ai-report
type: article
source: "Mozilla"
published: 2026-07-14T12:04:02.448Z
updated: 2026-07-23T17:11:08.660Z
tags: ["ai", "open-source", "ai-agents", "mozilla", "ai-infrastructure"]
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upvotes: 0
comments: 0
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# 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.

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