Doing for AI what we did for the web

The 2025/26 State of Mozilla is an invitation: choose your future.

AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new ways to create and collaborate and communicate. But AI is also letting us down, filling the internet with slop, creating huge social and economic risks — and further concentrating power over how tech works in the hands of a few.

The big tech players know this too. That’s why they’re racing to lock down AI and control the web— to make sure it works on their terms, not ours.

Mozilla Foundation — and all of the other organizations in the Mozilla Family — have a different future in mind. The choices we need to make to get there are clear:

• We Choose Humanity: We need to build for human agency—tech that fuels creativity and fiercely protects privacy.
• We Choose Collective Power: We need to lean into open source and community, just as we did with Firefox.
• We Choose a Different Economic Model: A ‘double bottom line’ — advancing our mission and shaping markets — continues to guide everything we do.

Today we are rewiring Mozilla to do for AI what we did for the web: to push AI in a different direction, one defined by openness, agency and choice. We continue to invest in core web products like Firefox and Thunderbird — and to support public interest technologists and communities through our fellowships, grant making and advocacy. And, at the same time, we are investing in new technology and new companies to push AI in a direction that is trustworthy, human-centered and shaped by all of us.

This report shares our progress and a roadmap in service of these goals. This includes the work of the Mozilla Foundation itself — a nonprofit doing cutting-edge innovation, advocacy and community building to develop a shared vision for what AI could be. And it includes the work of the social purpose companies within the Mozilla family, all of which are owned and controlled by the Foundation, ensuring they will always prioritize the public interest and return all profits to our social mission.

As in the web era, it's going to take a powerful community to win. Today Mozilla is gathering a rebel alliance of sorts, a growing network of open source developers, responsible startups, fellows, philanthropists and public-interest technologists working to shape what the internet becomes.

As you read the report, we hope you’ll agree: we have a real chance to push the internet — and AI — in a better direction. The future is still up for grabs. We can still choose our future.

The experience unfolds through six chapters - each a choice, each a signal of how we can build a different future together.