Notable recent
Democracy x AI Cohort 2026 announced ($1M across 10 teams). Mozilla Technology Fund previously awarded to lm-evaluation-harness (audit tools track).
Documented grants (10)
- Democracy x AI Cohort 2026 2026-02 · $1M / 10 teams + $250K Sustain Track
Recipient: 10 teams
10 teams at $50K each plus a $250K Sustain Track top-up. Focus on civic AI infrastructure.
- Ente Photos 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Ente
Open-source on-device semantic search and image recognition for private photo storage. Mozilla Builders Accelerator cohort 1 (local AI theme); avoids cloud dependency for personal photo libraries.
- Transformer Lab 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Transformer Lab
Cross-platform desktop application for building, training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and exporting local LLMs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Ships in Mozilla's first Builders Accelerator local-AI cohort.
- Sartify (Swahili LLM) 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Sartify
Foundation-model and tooling work for Swahili-speaking regions. Creates general and domain-specific AI capabilities for a language poorly served by major commercial models.
- Ersilia Model Hub 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Ersilia
Curated catalog of AI/ML drug-discovery models that operate locally. Targets researchers in low- and middle-income countries who cannot rely on US cloud platforms.
- Foyle 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Foyle
AI copilot for operations and automation work. Uses a notebook format to capture continuous human feedback so the assistant improves on the operator's actual workflows.
- Theia AI IDE 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Eclipse Foundation / Theia
Extension of the Eclipse Theia editor giving developers a transparent, customizable AI experience with the freedom to choose and self-host language models.
- Latent Scope 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Latent Scope
Local pipeline and visualization environment for embedding, clustering, and categorizing datasets with LLMs. Operates entirely on the user's machine.
- Nx (Elixir machine learning) 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Nx project / DockYard
Distributed machine-learning framework leveraging Elixir's concurrency and fault-tolerance properties as an alternative to Python-centric stacks.
- Tölvera 2024-09-23 · Up to $100K
Recipient: Tölvera
Creative tool bridging art and science with self-organizing simulations that explore alternative models of intelligence. Produced by an artist-researcher in Iceland.
Process
Open application; must agree to open-source the deliverable.
Cadence
Annual cohort calls; rolling Builders applications.