Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build a “World Wide Web of AI” by creating open, public AI infrastructure intended to be usable in multiple languages without requiring internet access. In February, at the India AI Summit, it partnered with Bhashini, the Indian government’s AI language division, resulting in Suno Sutra—an offline, pocket-sized device that runs AI in 22 Indian languages. Current AI CEO Ayah Bdeir said the goal is to represent India’s hundreds of languages and dialects, emphasizing that the device is open-sourced for developers. Founded in February 2025 by Martin Tisne, the nonprofit has moved quickly: it allocated $3.2 million in grants last month across four organizations and last week launched an open-source AI chatbot at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva. Funded as a public-private partnership, it cites $100 million from the French government plus supporters such as Ford, MacArthur, DeepMind, and Salesforce, totaling $400 million committed funding.