Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator

https://support.soloist.ai/doc/solo-shutdown-faq

17•nedrylandJP•57m ago

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rvz•38m ago

Another Mozilla failure to monetize something and to lose their >80 dependence on Googles money.

Hendrikto•34m ago

Another unasked for and fruitless side-project from Mozilla that did nothing but burn money and distract from their core product. Who could have seen it coming?

cubefox•12m ago

Uninformed comment. Due to a antitrust 2025 federal court ruling in United States v. Google LLC, Google is no longer allowed to continue its current search deal with Mozilla. Any replacement will be far less lucrative. So Mozilla needs to aggressively invest in alternative income sources. Otherwise there will be a strong funding shortfall and a headcount reduction. This could spell the end of Gecko and ultimately Firefox.

someotherperson•32m ago

Mozilla will be studied in the future. It's actually a masterful act from Google on how to stifle the competition and protect your bottomline.

Really, really wish that Mozilla just shuts down, so that the FOSS community can turn their attention to an actual, intentionally competitive alternative. Would love to see Canonical or similar lead the way here.

cubefox•8m ago

The opposite is true. Google has been the main funding source for Mozilla. Without Google no Firefox. But a US antitrust ruling from last year says their current deal can't continue, which implies strongly reduced funding. Mozilla needs to find alternative revenue sources or they f*ed.

eliasebner•28m ago

I don't even know what this is, but I must say, AI features don't seem to be improving the web experience, so anything AI related is usually not worth keeping (as far as I know, maybe there is something I haven't considered).

Mozilla seems to be going down a lot of rather futile side-paths, if you know what I mean. Nobody asked for this? Just make Firefox a better browser, work on the web standards I guess, do the things people actually need.

SyneRyder•15m ago

The only AI thing Mozilla added that I thought was genuinely useful, was on device language translation. Being able to read foreign language pages without feeding your browsing history into Google Translate is pretty cool.

But that's the only thing I've liked, and they keep killing projects that were genuinely useful and worth paying for (Pocket, Firefox Send).

xacky•28m ago

Mozilla will do anything but work through the decades old backlog on Bugzilla.

bel8•24m ago

Whoever came up with this already got their promotion and are probably prompting LLM for the next big thing.

devmor•14m ago

I don’t understand why Mozilla keeps doing these odd projects. They maintain the only real alternative browser stack to Chrome and rather than keep it up to date and triage bugs, so many resources keep flowing into random AI hype crapware that no one asked for.

tjwebbnorfolk•8m ago

They're grasping for relevance

cubefox•6m ago

They need new revenue sources. Their current Google deal was declared illegal.

amelius•13m ago

Makes me wonder: how long until we can replace the entire internet by a local AI and nobody would notice?

Like a kind of super-Turing test.

martinjc•10m ago

Since time has come for cutting the fat on initiatives like this website creator. I think other initiatives has gone under the ground, and companies have not answered to why they're cutting those initiatives. In job postings equality suddenly is not as prioritized, and if they are, what i hear it is not prioritized during interview rounds.

Who has to answer for these expenditures?

tjwebbnorfolk•9m ago

An organization that has lost most of its relevance has shut down a product I've never heard of. This is top of HN?

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