Mozilla's Inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report Is Here
Mozilla has released its inaugural State of Open Source AI report, which shows that open models are now competitive with closed ones, with a performance gap of only 3%. The report also highlights the challenges faced by open models, including the lack of revenue and infrastructure support. The future of open source AI will depend on investment in infrastructure, tooling, and governance to ensure that open models can scale and serve the public interest.
- ▪Open models have narrowed the performance gap with top proprietary systems to just 3%.
- ▪The cost of open models has fallen up to 50x in three years, but they capture only 4% of the revenue.
- ▪Asia is leading the world in open source AI adoption, with 89% of companies using open models, ahead of the West.
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Our Work Mozilla’s Inaugural ‘State of Open Source AI’ Report Is Here July 14, 2026 Raffi Krikorian Open source AI has crossed a threshold. For years the debate has centered around whether open models could ever compete with closed ones. This is no longer a debate we should be having. Today Mozilla is publishing its inaugural State of Open Source AI report, built on new analysis and a global survey of 950+ developers, showing that open models are no longer playing catch-up. The performance gap with top proprietary systems like ChatGPT and Claude has narrowed to just 3%, while costs have fallen up to 50x in three years. But the report also surfaces a harder truth. Open models now power roughly a third of real-world AI usage, but capture only 4% of the revenue.
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