> Imagine you have an AI button. When you click it, the locally running LLM

sure, you can imagine Firefox integrating a locally-running LLM if you want.

but meanwhile, in the real world [0]:

> In the next three years, that means investing in AI that reflects the Mozilla Manifesto. It means diversifying revenue beyond search.

if they were going to implement your imagination of a local LLM, there's no reason they'd be talking about "revenue" from LLMs.

but with ChatGPT integrating ads, they absolutely can get revenue by directing users there, in the same way they get money for Google for putting Google's ads into Firefox users' eyeballs.

that's ultimately all this is. they're adding more ads to Firefox.

0: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next...

not to mention the high resource-usage of a local LLM that most PCs wouldn't be able to handle, or would just drain a laptop's battery.