Hello everyone,
In our ideas to use AI for certain quality assurance tasks, like unit-tests and intitial code reviews, we thought it would be a great idea to connect to OpenAI. Then, after a conversation with one of our colleagues, the issue of privacy and code sharing, and especially with whom we share code, came up. We would be sharing all our company specific code, and all our business logic, with an American company, a company not known to value privacy as much. That is a thing that concerns me.
That colleague then suggested Mistral's Le Chat, which I researched, and found to be equally good after copying some of my (code related or otherwise) ChatGPT prompts in there. Aside that, there is Proton's Lumo, which is good in its own manner, but I would prefer the connection to Mistral's Le Chat or API in general. These companies, Proton and Mistral, are based in France and Switzerland.
Seeming the EU, and overal European, privacy laws are somewhat stricter than the privacy laws in the US and elsewhere (and as naive as this may sound), it would be a better idea for us to be able to connect to a European AI API. So I'd like to see both Mistral (Le Chat) and Proton (Sumo) as AI API connection options if that's possible, so we can keep our AI-related operations within Europe.
And yes, you could agrue that we are all on Windows, which is American, but that is hard to replace. Things that are easy to replace with EU/European alternatives, like certain social media and AI, should be considered to be replaced with their respective EU/European alternatives. Which is why I write this idea, Mistral's Le Chat and Proton's Sumo are fantastic European alternatives to OpenAI, Google Gemini and DeepSeek R1.
