The service, accessible at Duck.ai, is globally available and features a light and clean user interface. Users can choose from four AI models: two closed-source models and two open-source models. The closed-source models are OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, while the open-source models are Meta’s Llama-3 70B and Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7b.

What sets DuckDuckGo AI Chat apart is its commitment to user privacy. Neither DuckDuckGo nor the chatbot providers can use user data to train their models, ensuring that interactions remain private and anonymous. DuckDuckGo also strips away metadata, such as server or IP addresses, so that queries appear to originate from the company itself rather than individual users.

The company has agreements in place with all model providers to ensure that any saved chats are completely deleted within 30 days, and that none of the chats made on the platform can be used to train or improve the models. This makes preserving privacy easier than changing the privacy settings for each service.

In an era where online services are increasingly hungry for user data, DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat service is a breath of fresh air. The company’s commitment to privacy is a direct response to the growing concerns about data collection and usage in the AI industry. By providing a private and anonymous platform for users to interact with AI chatbots, DuckDuckGo is setting a new standard for the industry.

DuckDuckGo’s AI service is free to use within a daily limit, and the company is considering launching a paid tier to reduce or eliminate these limits. The service is designed to be a complementary partner to its search engine, allowing users to switch between search and AI chat for a more comprehensive search experience.

“We view AI Chat and search as two different but powerful tools to help you find what you’re looking for – especially when you’re exploring a new topic. You might be shopping or doing research for a project and are unsure how to get started. In situations like these, either AI Chat or Search could be good starting points.” the company explained.

“If you start by asking a few questions in AI Chat, the answers may inspire traditional searches to track down reviews, prices, or other primary sources. If you start with Search, you may want to switch to AI Chat for follow-up queries to help make sense of what you’ve read, or for quick, direct answers to new questions that weren’t covered in the web pages you saw.”

To accommodate that user workflow, DuckDuckGo has made AI Chat accessible through DuckDuckGo Private Search for quick access.

The launch of DuckDuckGo AI Chat comes at a time when the AI industry is facing increasing scrutiny over data privacy and usage. The service is a welcome addition for privacy-conscious individuals, joining the recent launch of Venice AI by crypto entrepreneur Erik Voorhees. Venice AI features an uncensored AI chatbot and image generator that doesn’t require accounts and doesn’t retain data..

As the AI industry continues to evolve, it’s clear that privacy will remain a top concern for users. With the launch of DuckDuckGo AI Chat, the company is taking a significant step towards providing users with a private and secure platform for interacting with AI chatbots.

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Mixtral 8x22B operates as a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) model, utilising just 39 billion of its 141 billion parameters when active.

Beyond its efficiency, the Mixtral 8x22B boasts fluency in multiple major languages including English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Its adeptness extends into technical domains with strong mathematical and coding capabilities. Notably, the model supports native function calling paired with a ‘constrained output mode,’ facilitating large-scale application development and tech upgrades.

With a substantial 64K tokens context window, Mixtral 8x22B ensures precise information recall from voluminous documents, further appealing to enterprise-level utilisation where handling extensive data sets is routine.

In line with fostering a collaborative and innovative AI research environment, Mistral AI has released Mixtral 8x22B under the Apache 2.0 license. This highly permissive open-source license ensures no-restriction usage and enables widespread adoption.

Statistically, Mixtral 8x22B outclasses many existing models. In head-to-head comparisons on standard industry benchmarks – ranging from common sense, reasoning, to subject-specific knowledge – Mistral’s new innovation excels. Figures released by Mistral AI illustrate that Mixtral 8x22B significantly outperforms LLaMA 2 70B model in varied linguistic contexts across critical reasoning and knowledge benchmarks:

Furthermore, in the arenas of coding and maths, Mixtral continues its dominance among open models. Updated results show an impressive performance improvement in mathematical benchmarks, following the release of an instructed version of the model:

Prospective users and developers are urged to explore Mixtral 8x22B on La Plateforme, Mistral AI’s interactive platform. Here, they can engage directly with the model.

In an era where AI’s role is ever-expanding, Mixtral 8x22B’s blend of high performance, efficiency, and open accessibility marks a significant milestone in the democratisation of advanced AI tools.

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