Ecosia drops Mistral and bets on open models, including China’s Qwen, GLM and Kimi, hosted in Europe
German search engine Ecosia announced this week that it is dropping models from France’s Mistral, which it says is “a year behind,” and switching to open-weight models such as Qwen, GLM and Kimi served by the European platform Melious, which it says has cut its costs in half.