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Re:Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can ... by downsplat on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:00AM (#43925692)
Same here. Since I started using LLMs a bit more, the killer step for me was to set up API access to a variety of providers (Mistral, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI), and use a unified client to access them. I'm usually coding at the CLI, so I installed 'aichat' from github and it does an amazing job. Switch models on the fly, switch between one-shot and session mode, log everything locally for later access, and ask casual questions with a single quick command.

I think all providers guarantee that they will not use your API inputs for training, it's meant as the pro version after all.

Plus it's dirt cheap, I query them several times per day, with access to high end thinking models, and pay just a few € per month.

Re:Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can ... by Deathmax on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:13AM (#43925806)
Gemini's free tier will absolutely use your inputs for training [1], same with Mistral's free tier [2]. Anthropic and OpenAI let's you opt into data collection for discounted prices or free tokens.

[1]: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#data-use-unpaid

[2]: https://mistral.ai/terms#privacy-policy

Re:Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can ... by downsplat on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:27AM (#43925923)
Yeah, I mean paid API access. You put a credit card in, and it's peanuts at the end of the month. Sorry I didn't specify. Good reminder that with free services you are the product!