Mozilla has unveiled Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client built for the corporate world and developed with Berlin-based deepset. The idea: let organizations run AI on their own infra so they keep control of data and can pick commercial, open, or local neural nets rather than being forced into a single cloud provider.
Thunderbolt plugs into corporate systems through the Haystack platform and the MCP/ACP protocols — think integrations via API for automating reports and workflows. In a blunt line, MZLA director Ryan Seips warned that "AI is too important to be entrusted to third-party clouds."
The client will ship on five OSes (Win → iOS) and supports E2EE for traffic and storage. I’ll admit the name made me smile; the web’s already running jokes connecting Thunderbolt to Intel and Apple's long-standing interface.