Mozilla's 2026 Report: Open Source AI Closes the Gap

Mozilla: The state of open source AI

We see open weights dominating production tokens as inference costs plummet fiftyfold. While closed models still lead in complex reasoning, open models now match them in coding and general tasks. Developers increasingly adopt open solutions, yet operational hurdles like deployment and maintenance remain the primary barriers to widespread production use.

"We have been here before. Mozilla exists because one company tried to own the front door to the web, and an open community rose up to make sure it never could."