--- 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. 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