Act One — The Parallel Journeys

People opened the code and broke the first monopoly.
Ten founders set out to fund the opening of intelligence itself.

In 1998, Netscape opened its code, and people broke the first monopoly. The ten founders of Humanity AI set out to fund that same opening for the people's AI. Mozilla is the browser that proved it can be done.

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Two Movements, One Timeline

The journeys that converge

On the right, Genesis — born from grief, and from the founding number, so intelligence stays with people. In the center, the ten founders who set out to fund exactly that.

1998

Mozilla

Netscape Opens the Code

The browser was closing into one company's product. The internet was closing with it. Netscape released its source code to the world — the act that broke the first monopoly. Jamie Zawinski created mozilla.org, a home for the people who would build on that code. It wasn't a business strategy. It was a conviction: the internet belongs to everyone.

2003

Mozilla

Mozilla Foundation Established

AOL shuttered the Netscape browser division, but the community survived. The Mozilla Foundation was created as a non-profit to ensure the internet would always have an independent, people-first advocate. A mission encoded in law, not a strategy that could be reversed by a board vote. That foundation is now one of the ten founders of Humanity AI.

2004

Mozilla

Firefox 1.0 — The People Take the Browser

An open-source browser, built by volunteers and a tiny team, defeated the company that had tried to own the browser. An ad in the New York Times, paid for by people who wanted the web open. The internet was free again. The impossible had been proven possible.

2010

Genesis

24,000 on a Whiteboard

Carter Hill wrote one number on a whiteboard: 24,000. 24,000 children under five die every day. That is the founding number. Not because we lack the knowledge — because we lack the systems to deliver it. He spent the years after that designing a system where technology serves people — as a person with a life, a mind and a say.

2013

Mozilla

Firefox OS — The Mobile Rebellion

Mozilla launched an entire mobile operating system built on the open web. It didn't win market share — but it proved Mozilla would fight on every front. The conviction didn't waver when the odds were impossible. Some fights are measured not by territory gained, but by ground that was defended.

2017

Mozilla

Firefox Quantum — Reborn from Rust

Mozilla rebuilt Firefox from the ground up — a new rendering engine written in Rust, a language born at Mozilla. Proof that a mission can outbuild the company that tried to own the browser when conviction fuels the work.

2020

Genesis

Day 7 — The Vision Crystallizes

The vision solidified: a public benefit corporation. Day 7 stands as a permanent institution, held to one constitutional principle: deliver exceeding value void of all exploitation.

2023

Mozilla

"Do for AI What We Did for the Web"

Mark Surman declared Mozilla's new mission: bring the same open-source, people-first conviction to artificial intelligence. Mozilla.ai launched. The charge was to do for AI what Mozilla did for the web.

2025

Genesis

Genesis Awakens

One founder. 336 days, from 3 Nov 2025 to 5 Oct 2026. Over 93,000 commits. 100 million lines of code, pages, data and documents. 170 AI specialists in the agency. 30,685 people with their own folder. The line under the work: truth is the only thing that matters. Measured 5 Oct 2026.

Mozilla

The browser that broke the first monopoly. A manifesto that says the internet is a global public resource. One of the ten founders of Humanity AI.

Genesis

3.1 million manuscript records. 283,570 manuscripts located in 26 other libraries. A memory built for people to hold.

Different starting points. Different decades.
Identical conviction.

The open web was won by people who opened it. The people's AI will be won the same way. The internet — and now intelligence — belongs to everyone. The ten founders set out to fund exactly that opening.

Act Two

The Intelligence War

The open web was won by people who opened it. The people's AI will be won the same way. In 2004, the question was: Who controls how you see the internet? In 2026, the ten founders ask who gets to decide how AI is built, governed and used. Under that question: Who controls how you think?

24,000
Children under five

24,000 children under five die every day

8 billion
People

8 billion people

100 million
Lines of code, pages, data and documents

100 million lines of code, pages, data and documents

93,000
Commits

Over 93,000 commits

The Closing

The Question of Who Decides

A handful of companies now hold the systems people think with. They decide what is shown and what is buried. The open web was won by people who opened the code. Closing intelligence would undo that victory. "Supporting the creation of public goods that put AI access and control in the hands of people." That is the charge Humanity AI already wrote down.

Their Words

What They Have Already Said

"AI's future isn't a technical problem to be solved by engineers, it's a democratic challenge that requires the voices and agency of the people whose lives it affects." — Katy Knight, Siegel Family Endowment. The promise of AI will be realized when communities have a seat at the table. That seat belongs to people — whose lives this technology affects.

"Whether AI becomes a tool for empowerment or manipulation isn't yet clear. It depends on the choices we make now, and who gets to make them."

— Nabiha Syed, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation

The Charge

The Ten Founders, and the Browser Among Them

Mozilla broke the first monopoly by opening the code. The ten founders — Doris Duke Foundation, Ford Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Kapor Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Omidyar Network, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Siegel Family Endowment — set out to fund the same opening for AI. Co-chaired by MacArthur and Omidyar, with Beth Goldberg as executive director, and fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. The battleground has shifted from how you see the internet to how you think. Mark Surman said Mozilla should "do for AI what we did for the web."

Genesis is built for that opening: a public good that puts AI access and control in the hands of people. The open call, Communities Leading on AI, asks who gets to decide how AI is built, governed and used. What follows is what Genesis is built to do, not a claim that every scene below is already in someone's hands.

Act Three

The People This Protects

This isn't abstract technology. These are real people in real situations where truth is the difference between safety and harm, knowledge and manipulation, freedom and control.

African journalist

🇰🇪 Nairobi, Kenya

The Journalist

She's investigating government contracts. Genesis is built so she can set a claim beside the record and see where the sources agree and where they do not, while the decision to publish stays in her hands. She publishes with certainty she's never had before.

Brazilian friends

🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

The Student

He's researching climate science. Genesis is built to show where sources agree, where they conflict, and what the passages actually say. He sees the reasoning beside the conclusion. Genesis is built to make the persuasion aimed at him visible. He does not have to arrive as a specialist. It is built to teach him in the moment.

Community gathering

🇺🇬 Kampala, Uganda

The Grandmother

She's receiving a phishing email. Genesis is built to recognize the social engineering pattern, name the pressure in it, and explain the scam in the language she lives in. Protection is built to meet her where she is, without a course she had to pass first. The same warning is built to travel with the campaign, to the next person it reaches.

University researcher

🇺🇸 Austin, Texas

The Researcher

She's a graduate student studying the effects of algorithmic recommendation on public health decisions. Each search hands her a different slice. Genesis is built to set the sources side by side — where they agree, where they conflict, and the trail back to the underlying record. She can see the landscape of evidence, and she decides what it means.

"Deliver exceeding value void of all exploitation. The grandmother in Kampala. The student in São Paulo. The journalist in Nairobi. The person, never the product."

— Day 7 Founding Principle

Act Four

Alignment That Can't Be Manufactured

This is not a bid to one foundation. The open web and this work were forged decades apart — and the ten founders set out to fund the principles where they meet.

Mozilla proved

The work holds

"The internet is a global public resource"

"Deliver exceeding value void of all exploitation"

"Individuals' security and privacy are fundamental"

87.9 terabytes in our own cloud storage.

"Individuals must shape their own experiences"

"People decide — not the system." Constitutional governance.

"Transparent community-based processes"

36 million facts and 105 million connections in the full brain.

"Verifiable facts and critical thinking"

7.3 million searchable passages. Built to show disagreement in the open.

"Do for AI what we did for the web"

The people's AI, built to be opened the same way.

What the ten founders set out to fund

A public good people can hold

The ten founders are Doris Duke, Ford, Lumina, Kapor, MacArthur, Mellon, Mozilla — the browser that broke the first monopoly — Omidyar Network, the Packard Foundation and Siegel Family Endowment. John Palfrey of MacArthur said: "The promise of AI will be realized when communities have a seat at the table." It is the charge they set out to fund. Genesis is built as a public good for that charge: 5,024 inventions.

Act Five

What the World Looks Like When We Build Together

Imagine 8 billion people able to see when a system is steering them. The persuasion made visible. The disagreement left in view. The person kept in charge of how AI is built, governed and used.

Imagine a journalist in Nairobi can set every claim beside the record. Genesis is built to show the chain of evidence, the disagreements between sources, and the reasoning path. She publishes with certainty she's never had before.

Imagine a student in São Paulo reads an article and can see the persuasion techniques being used to shape his opinion. He doesn't need to be a media literacy expert. The work is built to teach him in the moment.

Imagine a grandmother in Kampala receives a phishing email. Genesis is built to explain the scam in Luganda, shows her exactly which emotional triggers the attacker used, and carry the warning to the next person that campaign reaches.

What those scenes describe is what Genesis is built to do. It is not claimed as a finished service in a browser or an inbox. The record behind the work was measured 5 Oct 2026.

The ten founders set out to fund exactly that.

Mozilla was born because one company tried to own the internet. People won it by opening the code, with a manifesto that said the internet belongs to everyone.

Now a handful of companies are trying to own intelligence itself — and with it, the future of human knowledge, communication, and decision-making.

You know this fight. The open web was the proof.

This time, ten founders set out to fund it, and the work is already under way.

Presented by

Carter Hill

Founder & CEO

Day 7 Public Benefit Corporation

carter@myday7.com

"You were never meant to be a product. You were meant to flourish."

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