Raffi Krikorian
Raffi Krikorian is an Armenian-American technology executive who serves as Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla, a position announced in September 2025. He previously served as CTO of the Emerson Collective, the first CTO of the Democratic National Committee, director of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center where he led development of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet, and Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter. He is best known for scaling Twitter's infrastructure, launching Uber's self-driving fleet, and his current work advocating for trustworthy and open source AI.
“Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian compared using frontier AI for everyday work to 'driving a Ferrari to Whole Foods.' Cheaper models are fast enough, capable enough and can cost up to 50 times less.”
Source→“"The trial 'may be over, but the real choice is still ahead of us: whether AI becomes infrastructure that serves the public, or a set of products that lock us in.'"”
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