the old mozilla is still in there, lots of the best people are still working on the browser and other products... but so many shitty people are there too, and they're often making the decisions to do stuff like this...
Well, okay. Typing that out helps me collect my thoughts enough to correct myself: Old Mozilla would have done this too. It's the old naiveté of thinking that tech progress is inevitable and the best way to improve the world is to be at the bleeding edge and push it towards better principles. It's a mindset mostly divorced from the economic factors of the world and how they control and choose which areas of progress get priority.
I just wish, I dunno, that we hadn't hired 600 people to make a fuckin phone OS and instead just ran Open Source Y Combinator with the billions of dollars that whole project cost. If we could have admitted that it didn't need to be us that did it we could have reallocated the search deal money in way more impactful ways.
Mozilla is finally doing grant programs (has been, for many years now) but seeing them for LLM innovation is so discouraging. We're so late.
