A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’

The Next Web
By Ana-Maria StanciucJul 20, 2026, 9:01 am104 pts
A farmer in rural India photographs a dying plant and wants to look it up. She does not speak English, and today’s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing. Its goal is grand: a “public option” for AI, open and free to anyone, much like the […] This…

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