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Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all
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Key facts
- The French government seeded Current AI with $100 million, joined by the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, DeepMind, and Salesforce, bringing total committed funding to $400 million
- Current’s first cohort grant round, announced last month, involved deploying $3.2 million to four organizations across Kenya, Lebanon, and the Brazilian Amazon
- In India, there are hundreds of different languages and dialects, and right now AI is not representing them,” Current AI CEO Ayah Bdeir said
- The result became Suno Sutra, Hindi for “listening chronicles,” a pocket-sized, offline device that runs AI in 22 Indian languages, no internet required
Summary
That’s the type of problem a nonprofit called Current AI is trying to solve by building open, public AI infrastructure. “In India, there are hundreds of different languages and dialects, and right now AI is not representing them,” Current AI CEO Ayah Bdeir said . The nonprofit, founded in February 2025 by Martin Tisne, is moving fast. Bdeir, joined in January after leading Mozilla’s AI strategy. Current AI operates as a “public-private partnership” bringing together governments, companies, and philanthropies to fund public interest tech, she told TechCrunch.