A nonprofit is racing to build a free, public World Wide Web of AI

Current AI, a nonprofit founded by Martin Tisne in February 2025, is racing to build open, public AI infrastructure that it hopes can function as a genuine public alternative to private AI systems, envisioning AI that is available to anyone for free, the way the World Wide Web itself is, according to TechCrunch. The organization has allocated 3.2 million dollars in grants across four projects so far. One is Suno Sutra, a pocket sized, offline device built with Bhashini, India's government AI language division, that runs AI capable of operating in 22 Indian languages without requiring an internet connection. In Kenya, Current AI is supporting the Masakhane project, which is building AI datasets spanning more than 50 African languages for use in health, farming, and education applications currently underserved by AI systems trained mostly on a handful of major world languages. In Brazil, the group's Portal sem Porteiras project is building offline AI tools in partnership with Indigenous communities in the Amazon. Most recently, Current AI launched Alpha Chat, an open source chatbot assembled in just seven weeks at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva by a coalition of ten organizations including Hugging Face, Mozilla, and MIT Media Lab, intended as a proof of concept that a genuinely open, collaboratively built alternative to commercial chatbots is achievable on a short timeline.