A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260719/i14.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260719/p14#a260719p14" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Kate Park / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonprofit-current-ai-is-racing-to-build-the-world-wide-web-of-ai-free-for-all/">A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; A farmer in rural India takes a photo of a dying plant.&nbsp; She wants to research it on the internet but she doesn't speak English.</p>