Mozilla should stay focused on their core business. Cashing in decades of tangible and intangible resources to chase AI seems like a bad move.

Perhaps they could spin off a sister foundation to pursue the AI dream?

Month after this was posted, a new CEO, and a lot of outcry:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288491

More recent discussion today:

Mozilla’s open source AI strategy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599897