Mozilla CTO: Open Source and Open Weight AI, Rent or Own?
CXOTalk, Friday, October 9th, 2026
Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian explains open source vs. open weight AI models and what keeps enterprises from putting them into production.
CXOTalk episode 933 features Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian, who led Mozilla's State of Open Source AI report and explains how open weight models differ from open source models and why license terms matter.
Open models now trail the best closed models by only a few points at a fraction of the price, though frontier models keep an edge on the hardest tasks and went offline for almost three weeks in June after a government export order.
Procurement, compliance and support determine whether open models reach production in large companies.