New Delhi, July 19 -- a career at Mozilla building open internet infrastructure, followed by work at the top of corporate technology. As the nonprofit's chief executive, she is now overseeing a $400 million initiative to do for artificial intelligence what the early web did for information: build the foundational layer that anyone can use, regardless of who funds it or who it was built to monetize.

the French government has committed $100 million, the Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation are both contributors, and DeepMind and Salesforce have each made financial commitments.

The practical output so far is two products and a set of community data programs. The first is Suno Sutra, an offline AI assistant built for 22 Indian languages...