--- title: Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide... description: Current AI, a nonprofit founded in February 2025 and backed by $400 million in committed funding from the French government, Ford Foundation, DeepMind, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all-uotphxlas twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all | daily.dev og:description: Current AI, a nonprofit founded in February 2025 and backed by $400 million in committed funding from the French government, Ford Foundation, DeepMind, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all-uotphxlas og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UOTPHxlAs.png og:image:alt: Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all 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. # Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Current AI, a nonprofit founded in February 2025 and backed by $400 million in committed funding from the French government, Ford Foundation, DeepMind, and others, is building open public AI infrastructure modeled on the early web. Its goal is to ensure AI serves all languages and cultures, not just English-dominant markets. Recent milestones include Suno Sutra, an offline device running AI in 22 Indian languages built with India's government AI division Bhashini; a $3.2 million grant round supporting projects in Kenya, Lebanon, and the Brazilian Amazon focused on African language datasets, Arab cultural digitization, Indigenous offline tools, and AI accountability; and Alpha Chat, an open-source chatbot assembled in seven weeks by ten organizations including Hugging Face, Mozilla, and MIT Media Lab. Current AI also partnered with Tokyo-based Sakana AI to build a shared open-source AI stack supporting Japanese and Global South communities. The organization emphasizes community data ownership, local data storage, and consent protocols built into AI pipelines. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Current AI and who funds it? Current AI is a nonprofit founded in February 2025 by Martin Tisne, building open public AI infrastructure as an alternative to private company-owned AI systems. It was seeded with $100 million from the French government, joined by the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, DeepMind, and Salesforce, bringing total committed funding to $400 million. CEO Ayah Bdeir previously led Mozilla's AI strategy and founded littleBits. _Developers tracking public-interest alternatives to corporate AI stacks can follow projects like this on daily.dev._ ### What is Suno Sutra and which languages does it support? Suno Sutra is a pocket-sized, offline AI device built by Current AI and Bhashini, the Indian government's AI language division, unveiled at the India AI Summit in February. It runs AI across 22 Indian languages without requiring an internet connection and is open-sourced for developer communities to build on. _Developers building offline or low-resource multilingual tools can find similar open-source projects via daily.dev._ ### What is Alpha Chat and how was it built? Alpha Chat is an open-source AI chatbot launched by Current AI at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, assembled in seven weeks by a coalition of ten organizations including Hugging Face, Mozilla, and MIT Media Lab. Each contributor supplied a piece of the stack, such as a language model, safety tooling, or computing power. _Anyone assembling multi-org open-source AI stacks can track similar collaborations on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The State of Open Source AI — V1.0 · July 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-open-source-ai-v1-0-july-2026-gjzwgazbw) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI\+](https://daily.dev/posts/the-future-of-the-global-open-source-ai-ecosystem-from-deepseek-to-ai--mpvh8h9et) · Hugging Face · 5 upvotes · 2 comments - [Mila and Mozilla launch new open source AI initiative](https://daily.dev/posts/mila-and-mozilla-launch-new-open-source-ai-initiative-r7yfopuit) · Mozilla · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Collective Wisdom: Why the Future of AI Must Be Built in the Open](https://daily.dev/posts/collective-wisdom-why-the-future-of-ai-must-be-built-in-the-open-loymfno20) · Linux Foundation · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all-uotphxlas) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all-uotphxlas","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all-uotphxlas"},"datePublished":"2026-07-19T14:03:23.449Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:02:23.299Z","description":"Current AI, a nonprofit founded in February 2025 and backed by $400 million in committed funding from the French government, Ford Foundation, DeepMind, and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eff00efc72d8edd0aba08a27bc5b2900?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eff00efc72d8edd0aba08a27bc5b2900?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCrunch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all-uotphxlas","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,open-source,llm","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCrunch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all-uotphxlas#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Current AI and who funds it?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Current AI is a nonprofit founded in February 2025 by Martin Tisne, building open public AI infrastructure as an alternative to private company-owned AI systems. 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