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Mozilla was surprisingly close to having its own search engine, if you count its partnership with Ghostery several years back. But Brave, a company with presumably fewer resources, bought it out.
But Brave isn't maintaining a rendering engine, so they're able to spend on different things.
How much do you think Tailcat cost Brave? I know Mozilla must spend more money doing legitimate browser development, but they also spend a whole lot of money doing entirely unrelated things.
If it was less than $65 million, the amount of money Mozilla committed to AI and VC back in 2022, it could have been the money they purchased Tailcat with back in 2021.