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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As a software developer I am huge supporter of Mozilla's developer initiatives from Manifest V2 implementation to MDN. But it's also important to be realistic Mozilla has long had major money problems, and not the kind that giving them more would fix.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The Lunduke shit again? The one that takes offense to money being donated to support "politics" i.e abortion rights?

Take a look at the other trash he posts on his reddit profile. That blog is not a trustworthy source, by any stretch, and it's sweetly ignoring that he's not looking at Mozilla's spending alone, but of 3 separate entities that exist under the umbrella of the Mozilla Foundation.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

I don't know anything about him, but the criticism of them spending money on donating to other charities rather than focusing on making Mozilla's core projects sustainable IMO is correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I don't think this is a money making move. The previous CEO was absolutely overly focused on monetization and this move is a step away from that. I should've addressed this more explicitly in the above comment but even for the players who actively monetize, AI is a money incinerator.

[–] ReveredOxygen 2 points 9 months ago

Cloud AI is, but for local AI, they only need to incinerate enough money to train it. That's none if they just end up using mixtral or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I agree it's probably not for money making, that's my point, its instead that their management doesn't know how to spend money.