Expert Opinion
As AI takes on more work, organisations need clear limits on models, tools and spend. Otari, Mozilla AI’s open-source gateway, brings model choice, agent governance and cost control together, so teams can adopt AI with confidence. Your models. Your tokens. Your control.
Expert Opinion
Your agents search the web dozens of times a day, but do you know which search engine receives those queries? Most providers don't say. Otari lets you keep your model and choose the search backend: ours, your own key, or self-hosted.
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Open models are ready for agents, but the infrastructure around them isn't. Otari is a gateway that restores what hosted APIs quietly handle, like web search and code execution, so you keep control of your providers, credentials, and sandboxes while your app sees the same tool interface.
Product Release
Mistral Large 4 is live in Otari from day one. Route to Mistral's 1T-parameter MoE model with one string change, and keep the policies, traces and cost tracking you already run in Otari, Mozilla AI's open-source gateway and policy layer.
Expert Opinion
Coding agents now edit repos, run tests, and open pull requests, but a rule in AGENTS.md is an instruction, not a constraint. As we delegate more, we need limits that hold even when model judgment fails, a record of every decision, and open infrastructure we own, so rules outlive any agent.
Technical Content
Benchmarking Local LLM Servers evaluates llama.cpp, llamafile, LM Studio, and Ollama across Mac, Linux, and Steam Deck. The study reveals build flags and configurations drive up to 63% performance gains, whereas underlying engines perform similarly due to a shared llama.cpp core.
Agent Skills in Octonous offer a central, reusable library for your context, guidelines, and procedures. Written in standard Markdown, Skills end repetitive setup. Store team knowledge once, share it across your workspace, and seamlessly attach it to automated tasks or live conversations.
Open source isn't a moral choice; it’s an operational strategy to prevent vendor lock-in. As transient AI models change, controlling the orchestration layer that routes and manages them becomes critical. Owning your infrastructure code is the only way to ensure true architectural sovereignty.
Expert Opinion
Discover how a Product Operations Manager uses Octonous to streamline daily workflows, from turning GitHub releases into newsletters to capturing competitor intel from Slack. Save hours on repetitive tasks and focus on the strategic work that really matters.
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llamafile v0.10.5 is out! Updated llama.cpp core support lets you run two huge models locally: the compressed 6GB Ternary Bonsai 27B and the fast 118B Laguna-S-2.1 coding MoE. This release also fixes docs and adds pre-built transcribefile speech-to-text binaries.
AI’s future isn’t about replacing human thinking, but enhancing it. As AI agents evolve from simple assistants into deeply connected systems, control, privacy, and personalisation will shape the next era of AI. Mozilla AI is building towards a more open and user-controlled future.
Frontier AI models are becoming more capable, but also more tightly coupled to proprietary state, memory and execution environments. This article explores what that means for developers building open, portable AI systems.
Why would you worry about them? LLMs promise something close to infinite capability, and worrying about the meter feels like someone else's problem. Ship the feature. Let the model think as long as it needs to, right? Right. Until the bill arrives. The shock Picture it: your best
Swapping LLMs sounds simple, but managing separate SDKs, credentials, and billing turns model evaluation into an infrastructure headache. Otari solves this with a unified gateway, decoupling application logic from providers so teams can seamlessly route traffic, test new models, and control spend.
At ACM FAccT, we demonstrated why AI guardrails need the same scrutiny as models. Moving from static policies to context- and language-specific evaluations, our hands-on session proved that agentic guardrails equipped with tools like web search are vital for reliable, real-world deployment.
Open models have reached impressive levels of capability, but the surrounding platform often falls short. This blog explores the hidden infrastructure gaps developers face and why bridging them is essential for production-ready AI applications.
Discover how Octonous helps our team at Mozilla.ai cut through daily busywork, from automatically monitoring our libraries to staying on top of the latest developments in AI safety.
The Model’s the Easy Part - How to Get, and Keep, Value Here’s how I see the evolution of AI in enterprises over the last few years: * Autumn of 2022, the world thinks it’s going into a recession. IT budgets are frozen for 2023. * November 30, 2022: ChatGPT
If you are building LLM-powered applications today, you are probably managing multiple LLM providers, a pile of API keys, and your own logic for routing, budgets, and failovers. Accessing language models is no longer the challenge. Operating LLM infrastructure effectively is. Today, we are excited to launch Otari, the
Meet transcribe.cpp, a new open-source C/C++ speech-to-text inference library with portable, GPU-accelerated support for multiple STT models. Developed through Mozilla.ai's Builders in Residence program, it makes adding fast, local transcription to applications easier than ever.
A look at how we use Octonous inside mozilla.ai to reduce the everyday overhead of product work, from turning Slack feedback into GitHub issues to staying on top of product changes and finding context across the tools where work already happens.
