Η Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as the new CEO, promoting an executive who spent the last year leading the Firefox browser team and plans to make Artificial Intelligence central to the company's future.
Enzor-DeMeo announced Tuesday that an “AI Mode” will be coming to Firefox next year. The feature will allow users to choose from multiple AI models rather than being locked into a single provider. Some options will be open-source models, others will be private “cloud options hosted by Mozilla,” and the company also plans to integrate models from major AI companies.
Mozilla itself will not train any of its own language models.
“We have no incentive to push one model or the other,” Enzor-DeMeo told The Verge. Firefox currently has about 200 million monthly users, a fraction of Chrome’s roughly 4 billion, though Enzor-DeMeo insists that Firefox’s usage on mobile devices is growing at a decent pace.
He takes over from interim CEO Laura Chambers, who led the company through a major antitrust case and what Mozilla describes as “double-digit mobile growth.”
Chambers will return to Mozilla's board of directors.
The new CEO has outlined three priorities: ensuring that all products give users control over AI features, including the ability to turn them off, building a business model around transparent monetization, and expanding Firefox into a broader ecosystem of trusted software.
Mozilla VPN integration is planned for the browser next year.
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
