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New Mozilla CEO: "[Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser" (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 week ago by XLE@piefed.social to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm worried you are right as well. Fortunately there are a number of great Firefox forks. I just wish they would put more focus into their core product.

One thing that really baffles me is that they aren't getting any revenue for having a default AI or something like that. Surely one of these companies would pay some decent money to have their AI agent as the default just as Google does for search.

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It seems like Mozilla's end game is to become a rival to Google for advertising revenue.

Google's stranglehold on search produces a huge volume of hugely valuable user data. That data + search market share drives demand for their advertising products.

If Mozilla can embed an LLM in their browser that meets people's search needs, then Mozilla and their 'AI' will be the ones hoovering up gobs of user data and selling the data and advertising space to marketers.