Mozilla Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian argues that India and other nations should invest in open-source AI infrastructure rather than relying on proprietary models from major tech companies to achieve genuine AI sovereignty. He contends that open-source alternatives already match proprietary systems’ performance at lower cost while providing greater policy autonomy and democratic legitimacy. Krikorian asserts that countries do not capture value by reselling foreign technology stacks, but by building differentiated products on shared open foundations, and he pledges Mozilla’s resources toward collaborative international investment in open-source AI capability.
