German search engine Ecosia is replacing Mistral with open-weight AI models, including Chinese-developed Qwen, GLM and Kimi, through a partnership with German AI platform Melious. Founder and CEO Christian Kroll said the switch had roughly halved costs while improving quality and performance.
How can propaganda slop lead to better quality of output? This is impossible.
Because close to all prompts users put into ecosias search do not ask for information that China has a bias towards?
China has bias towards a lot more than immediate China-related topics. You can’t trust such a regime.
They were on ClosedAI before, so that’s basically US/Israeli propaganda slop. They only used Mistral for a few months and it turned out Mistral just doesn’t work much of the time. China is the only remaining player.