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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.