How do we stop LLMs from flattening culture?
Join EM Lewis-Jong, CEO of @mozdatacollective.bsky.social, and Slow AI's Dr. Sam Illingworth live at 9am ET TODAY as they discuss why language and culture should exist in multitudes.
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Mark Surman will be at HumanX 2026 in San Francisco, April 6–9.
He’s sharing thoughts on open vs closed AI models — and how teams can choose systems that support long‑term agency and openness.
If you’re attending HumanX, make sure to catch the conversation.
On March 11, Mozilla Fellow Kiito Shilongo,
@giz.de Africa and others will examine the real-world impact of data governance across Kenya, Ghana and Zambia.
Register to join the conversation:
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datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/datasets/cmm... Curated collection of public domain literature from Finland! The dataset captures the literary landscape of early 20th-century Finland and includes independent texts in both of the country's official languages: Finnish (fi) and Swedish (sv).
🚨 Call now open: Democracy x AI Incubator
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Excited that Mark Surman is joining TVO for a live taping this Friday night. If you’re in Ontario, come be part of the room — it’s going to be a thoughtful, wide‑open conversation about tech and where we go next.
We’ll share the video afterward so everyone can tune in.
www.tvo.org/tvo-today-live
AI is reshaping democracy whether we like it or not.
So let’s make sure it serves people.
The Democracy x AI Incubator is now open.
Deadline: March 16, 2026
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Raffi Krikorian’s new op‑ed digs into a point we rarely say out loud: if AI is going to shape public life, people deserve systems they can actually examine and trust.
Renting black‑box models from Big Tech won’t get us there.
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#IndiaAIImpactSummit2026
📣 114 hours of recorded Nahuatl with transcripts!
Get native speech from the municipalities of Zacatlán and Tepetzintla to take your NLP project to the next level.
This is what responsible AI training data looks like.
Explore the collection 👇
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🚨 Call now open: Democracy x AI Incubator
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$50K + 12 months of support.
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"Creators should know if their work has been used to train a system. There should be simple ways to track where content comes from and how it is used.
Transparency should not be optional."
Ziyaad Bhorat, Mozilla Foundation #AIImpactSummit
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In a world of rising geopolitical friction, building on systems you don’t own is a risk. Open‑source is the fastest path to resilience and autonomy. As the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 unfolds, read this from Mark Surman and Raffi Krikorian >>
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"📚 Over 18K proverbs, 243 tales & 380 legends! Tauren's Tatar Folklore helps tech get beyond multilingual by providing multiCULTURAL high-quality datasets.
⚖️ CC0, free for NLP projects: datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/datasets/cml...
Open source AI. Digital public infrastructure. Community power. Mozilla is in India next week to champion an AI future that’s open, accountable, and shaped by the people who use it.
AI is reshaping democracy whether we like it or not.
So let’s make sure it serves people.
The Democracy x AI Incubator is now open.
Deadline: March 16, 2026
https://bit.ly/406u4yj
Generative AI is reshaping film, music, and journalism.
But who gets credit?
On 17 Feb at India AI Impact Summit, Mozilla Foundation and G5A Foundation will explore what “original” means in the age of AI.
Registered? Join us. And watch this space for takeaways👀
impact.indiaai.gov.in/registration
New grant opportunity available at @mozilla.org!
Mozilla Foundation just launched its Democracy x AI Incubator, looking for tech that’s making a positive impact on democracy.
Know anyone that would be a great fit? Selected projects will be granted $50k USD.
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Latest open data drop! 🔥 from our ASEAN language communities 🌏 read: community.mozilladatacollective.com/latest-asian... download: datacollective.mozillafoundation.org we can't wait to see what you build @mozilla.org @asianstudies.org @complingjournal.bsky.social @everythingopen.au #opensource 🧡
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Team @mozdatacollective.bsky.social is looking for paper submissions to support their session on Synthetic Speech at @interspeech.bsky.social find out if your work is a fit! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
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🧡📣 1 million tokens of Balochi just arrived @mozdatacollective.bsky.social! Check out this beautiful dataset of journalistic Western Balochi (Rakhshani) datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/datasets/cml... @mozilla.org
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Want to learn more about the current state of open AI models? In this conversation from @sdtimes.bsky.social, Mozilla AI's John Dickerson goes deep on open source models and the importance of transparency. whatthedev.buzzsprout.com/673192/episo...
Warning: My new @fastcompany.com story has some Star Wars references!
I recently interviewed @mozilla.org president Mark Surman about the annual "State Of Mozilla" report, the role of user choice with AI and his vision for a "rebel alliance" for responsible tech. www.fastcompany.com/91490055/moz...
Data centers on the moon? Or a movement to counter big tech? In this feature for @fastcompany.com, @martyswant.bsky.social digs in on the #StateOfMozilla and our commitment to user choice in the era of AI. www.fastcompany.com/91490055/moz...
