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I heard that Mistral Le Chat uses AWS servers. What are other alternatives that dont put money into us companies? At least datacenters.

I know that polish llm - https://bielik.ai/ chat.bielik.ai has own servers. What are other alternatives?

Why Le Chat is not using ovh or scaleway?

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[–] Staff@piefed.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There is Lumo by Proton which says they have a focus on privacy. Here's what it said about their servers locations:

Lumo’s backend runs on the same trusted infrastructure that powers all Proton services.

  • Primary data‑center location: Switzerland – Proton’s core servers are hosted in secure, ISO‑27001‑certified facilities in the Geneva region. This gives Lumo the strong legal protection and privacy guarantees that come from Swiss jurisdiction.
  • Additional redundancy: Proton also maintains secondary sites (including a U.S. location) that are used only for fail‑over and load‑balancing. These extra nodes never store permanent user data; they simply help keep the service available if the primary Swiss site experiences an outage.

Because Lumo is built on Proton’s existing architecture, it inherits the same end‑to‑end encryption, zero‑knowledge design, and strict data‑retention policies that apply to Proton Mail, Drive, VPN, and the rest of the suite. In short, Lumo’s servers are primarily Swiss‑based, with backup capacity in other regions for reliability, but all user data remains encrypted and under the protection of Swiss privacy law.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Lumo isn't as good as ChatGPT, but as someone that doesn't really need to use ai (let alone good ai) i definitely prefer medium quality with high privacy then the other way around and Lumo has become my go-to chatbot because of that.

[–] loops@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does anybody know what models Lumo uses?

[–] digital_digger@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I found things. This like a mix of models. "The models we’re using currently are Nemo, OpenHands 32B, OLMO 2 32B, GPT-OSS 120B, Qwen, Ernie 4.5 VL 28B, Apertus, and Kimi K2." https://proton.me/support/lumo-privacy

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

When Lumo was first released I asked it and it said Mistral. For what it's worth

[–] digital_digger@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Euria from Infomaniak. Surprisingly quite good and ethical.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s just Qwen3 - an Alibaba model. You can also run it yourself locally.

Just ask about specific events the CCP does not like or Tian’anmen if you want to confirm.

[–] doopen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

That's a pretty cool listing made about itself.

[–] digital_digger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I learned something thanks. Quite disappointing from them. They are advertising ethics, warming building blablabla but they have no problem with that.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I heard that Mistral Le Chat uses AWS servers.

Does it? What's your source for that information?

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Thinking, there's no way to run this bullshit without Billions to spend and being large enough to get these Billions invested into you by braindead venture capitalists.

[–] qualium@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago