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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by einat2346@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I don't think this is a money making move. The previous CEO was absolutely overly focused on monetization and this move is a step away from that. I should've addressed this more explicitly in the above comment but even for the players who actively monetize, AI is a money incinerator.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Cloud AI is, but for local AI, they only need to incinerate enough money to train it. That's none if they just end up using mixtral or something

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I agree it's probably not for money making, that's my point, its instead that their management doesn't know how to spend money.