Ford Foundation

Nonprofit Current AI builds open public AI infrastructure

Current AI, a nonprofit founded in February 2025, is building open, public AI infrastructure aimed at supporting underserved languages and communities. The group has partnered with India’s Bhashini to create Suno Sutra, an offline device that runs AI in 22 Indian languages, and recently launched an open-source chatbot called Alpha Chat developed by a coalition of organizations. Current AI allocated $3.2 million in grants to four projects across Kenya, Lebanon and the Brazilian Amazon focused on language datasets, cultural digitization, offline tools and AI auditability. Backers include the French government, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, DeepMind and Salesforce, with $400 million in total committed funding. The nonprofit also announced a collaboration with Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI to build a shared open-source AI stack supporting Japanese and Global South communities.

Mozilla Collusion Visualizes Web Tracking Transparency

Mozilla has developed a new add-on called Collusion that visualizes tracking activity in real time as users browse. By clicking the Collusion icon, users enter a tracking-all view where websites and third-party trackers are visualized in a space-themed interface. The display clusters pages and uses color codes: red circles indicate sites listed as trackers on privacychoice.org, grey borders mark gray-area sites, and blue tones represent pages the user has actively visited. Mozilla frames Collusion as part of a broader mission to increase network transparency, while noting that not all tracking is inherently bad. The project is developed in cooperation with the Ford Foundation to inform users about all aspects of tracking, including its positive applications. A quote from Andrew Lewis on the presentation page—“If you don’t pay, you’re the product”—is also highlighted.