The nonprofit Current AI is building open artificial intelligence infrastructure designed as a public alternative to systems controlled by the world’s largest technology companies. Its vision resembles the early web: essential tools should be available to everyone, while communities retain control of their own data.

One of its first projects is Suno Sutra, a pocket-sized device developed with India’s government-backed language platform Bhashini. It can operate without an internet connection and supports 22 Indian languages. The system is open source, allowing developers to adapt it for education, agriculture, and other local needs.

Current AI has also distributed $3.2 million in grants to projects in Kenya, Lebanon, and the Brazilian Amazon. The work includes datasets for more than 50 African languages, digital archives of Arab culture, and offline AI tools developed with Indigenous communities.

The organization says it has secured about $400 million in committed funding from governments, foundations, and technology partners. Its goal is to build models and services around linguistic diversity, community consent, and local data control rather than focusing only on commercial scale.