that side project you keep putting off, build it on infrastructure you already own. #mozfest developers wilding: online. oct 28 – nov 11. build with otari, mozilla ai’s open-source platform, on any model you choose. $1,000 top prize, first 200 sign-ups get $20 in otari tokens. join the Mozilla OSAI Discord for more details. discord.gg/TqvzGH9mwz

We’re drawing the history of open source AI, and you deserve to be a part of it! This year at MozFest, we're inviting everyone to share their open source story on the walls of the Open Source House. If you're attending MozFest, stop by and add yourself to the history of open source. #MozFest

If every company rents the same frontier model, who gets the compound interest on the AI? For #OpenSourceAIWeek , @raffi (CTO, @mozilla) and @Koukoumidis (CEO, @oumi_ai) tackled that in AI Masterminds. The questions they tackled: • What happens when your provider changes pricing or access? • Cost per token, or cost per completed task? • Is the model the product, or the harness around it? What they agreed on: the goal isn’t to pick one model forever. Keep your options open. Start with one critical workload. Evaluate it. Test alternatives. Write a runbook. Then decide where an open or specialized model wins. Reply to your own thread (link goes here, not in the opening post): Full conversation: oumi.ai/blog/ai-master-minds… On Nov 4, we’ll show how to build agents and train the models behind them, and you keep ownership of both. Register: oumi.ai/events/fall26

Open source models are rapidly narrowing the gap between closed ones and the concerns are real. At the same time, people are building ethical, human-first efforts. It all comes down to how AI is built, audited and used. This is just one of the conversations from the latest Owners Not Renters livestream featuring Alejandro Gonzalez and Thomas Bille, and Brian Mbuba. Watch the replay and stay tuned for more information about our next live show.