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Raffi Krikorian

CTO, Mozilla

Raffi Krikorian is Chief Technology Officer at Mozilla, where he leads the technical strategy to make open source AI as capable and accessible as closed alternatives — so the future of AI is owned by the people who use it. Previously, he was VP of Engineering at Twitter, CTO of the Democratic National Committee, and led Uber's first commercial self-driving passenger fleet. He publishes Owners, Not Renters, a Substack on open source AI for builders who have to defend architecture decisions. 📰 New York Times | It's the End of the Internet as We Know It 📙 Substack | Owners, Not Renters

Raffi Krikorian

Sessions / 2026 / 1 talk

  • The End of the Internet As We Know It

    In a recent New York Times op-ed, Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian warned that the informal detente that kept the internet secure — where writing software and finding vulnerabilities were equally hard — is over. Raffi sits down with Pete Soderling to go deeper: what the Mythos moment means for builders right now, how teams should think about AI as co-author rather than tool, the economics of open source in a world of expensive foundation models, and whether open models can offer a credible alternative to the frontier labs. Read Raffi's NYT essay: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souce-internet.html

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