AI Potluck is a global movement to build an open source public option for AI that isn't owned by any one company or country.
Here's how we build it.
The pieces of a public alternative to proprietary AI are out there: open models, public compute, datasets and safety tools, built by teams around the world. But they're scattered, and pieces are missing. We bring the best together, build what's missing and ship it feature by feature.
find the gaps
Gap Map V0.5
The Gap Map charts the open source AI stack, with 1,150 projects scored for openness, capability and adoption. It shows what exists and where work is still needed. Every gap on the map is an open invitation to build.
build together
Alpha
Alpha is the AI assistant we build together. It’s made from open source parts, open to audit, and private by default. Each contribution adds to what it can do, in more languages and for more communities.
make the plan
Roadmap
Our shared plan for an open, auditable public interest AI stack, from hardware to applications. Follow what contributors are building now, and find the open calls where your work and your community fit.
Why a potluck?
The dominant metaphor for AI is the race, where someone is winning, someone is losing, and everyone is hoarding.
Instead, we propose a potluck, where individual excellence produces collective abundance. There is no single owner, no single point of failure.
Around the table are builders pushing for better AI, governments building for AI sovereignty, and foundations committed to public interest technology.
The rules are simple: bring your best, and don’t hold back your secret ingredient.
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What our partners are saying
Open source AI gets stronger when the pieces fit together and any one of them can be swapped for a better one. That’s why Mozilla isn’t just focused on open source software, it’s also building open standards that make it easy to connect everything together. AI Potluck shows what happens when people assemble those pieces into something you can use today.
Mark Surman, President, Mozilla
Connector
A model proves itself in use. AI Potluck puts open models like Apertus in front of people with real questions, and that’s the feedback we need to build the next one.
Dr. Imanol Schlag, Apertus Lead at ETH Zurich
model contributor
Mozilla Data Collective puts language communities in charge of who uses their data and on what terms. A public option for AI needs data built that way, by people who choose to share it. AI Potluck is making room for it.
EM Lewis-Jong, CEO
Builder
The most valuable data in the world is the data that can’t simply be shared. Federated inference lets AI models draw on that data in real time, while its owners keep the only copy—and the final say. Give open models that kind of access, and they can push the frontier of AI.
Andrew Trask
Builder
Everyone deserves to be safe online, whether it's neighbors chatting on a community forum or a child learning something new with AI. ROOST builds free tools anyone can use to protect their users. We're excited that CurrentAI prioritizes safety in their AI products and implements it through open source solutions.
Camille François, CEO
builder
Join us!
The Potluck is a growing movement of governments, funders, builders and communities, each contributing something no one else can. Bring your compute, models, inference, data, evaluation, domain-specific application layers, and together we'll build something no one can alone.
Builder
Have a model, fine-tuning, benchmarks, safety tools or compute, or want to build what's missing? Bring it to the table, and we'll ship it together.
Funder
Have capital or resources to invest? Direct funding can be matched 1:1, doubling your impact.
Connector
Lead a community, developer network or user group? Help grow the movement by bringing the Potluck to the people in your community.
