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Story summary
- Ecosia dropped Mistral as its AI supplier and switched to open models, including Chinese ones.
- CEO Christian Kroll said Mistral’s models lag a year behind competitors, its servers overloaded, and costs were high.
- The switch roughly halved Ecosia’s AI service costs while improving performance, according to reports.
- Through Melious, Ecosia now uses Z.ai’s GLM 5.3, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.