Ecosia GmbH

We're talking about Google and Bing, right? Those are the major players.

Of course, there are others as well as Ecosia, There's Yandex, there's, you know, I would call it DuckDuckGo, I mentioned before.

There are different platforms that you can be on that are search engine based, but Google and Bing are your top two.

Those are the ones that are really taking the cake.

My name is pretty unusual, so I'm pretty easy to find on LinkedIn.

And then if you just search for Ellen Kuwana, I used to say Google search, but now I say use Ecosia, E-C-O-S-I-A.

It's an internet search engine that's powered by solar and they reinvest profits to planting trees globally.

So there you go.

Do an Ecosia search for me.

There you go.

I'm going to have to look that up.

While in the city, I use pumped water, use a fridge, use a gas stove, plan to eat mostly market vegetables to cut down on packaging and miles my food travels, don't go anywhere, not just due to the strike as have no money to afford going places anyway, Have been avoiding Google, so I only go straight to website links or search Wikipedia for links to official websites.

My surfing isn't green because Ecosia is only made green through Google ads, not casually through browsing.

So I mostly use green services or things related to the podcast, which is compensated.

That's the state of the strike.

It's called search syndication.

Ecosia, which is a search engine that uses its profits to fund tree planting and environmental projects, has served Google's results and Google ads to many of its users since 2023 through a deal with Google.

And according to Barry Schwartz, one of the most well-known people in SEO, he was on the podcast a week and a half ago.

He shared this.

I can duck duck go it if I really want.

Um, I can search on Ecosia or whatever it's called and get it, um, and save some trees along the way while I destroy all of humanity.

But I could do that-

Admitting to ter- admitting to terrorism.

Please.

So there's an app called Ecosia, and it's, like, similar to Google, but, um, you can turn off the AI mode, and every search, it plants a tree, so it's-

Oh, that sounds great

... way better-

And did you guys research that yourself and you found this website for...

What's it called again?

Ecosia.

Ecosia.

Y una deserción discreta que vale la pena mencionar.

Ecosia, el motor de búsqueda alemán utilizado por varios servicios gubernamentales de la Unión Europea como apuesta de soberanía europea, anunció que abandona Mistral, el modelo de IA insignia de Francia, y lo reemplaza con alternativas de código abierto, incluidos modelos chinos.

El CEO dijo que estaban decepcionados con la calidad apenas cinco meses después de comprometerse públicamente con Mistral como la apuesta europea propia.

La narrativa de soberanía de IA en Europa acaba de complicarse bastante.

Tom's Hardware ejecutó los benchmarks sobre Mistral Large 4, presentado como la respuesta europea a la IA de frontera, y descubrió que un modelo chino más pequeño, GLM 5.3 Flash, con aproximadamente un tercio del tamaño, lo iguala o supera en varios indicadores clave.

Y el bochorno se agravó cuando se supo que Ecosia, el buscador alemán utilizado por varios servicios de gobiernos de la Unión Europea, abandona Mistral por completo y se pasa a alternativas de código abierto, incluidos modelos chinos.

El CEO de Ecosia calificó la calidad de decepcionante, apenas cinco meses después de apostar públicamente por Mistral como proyecto de soberanía tecnológica europea.

Mientras tanto, dentro de los propios laboratorios de IA, el clima es más sombrío de lo que sugieren los comunicados de prensa.

Para esa historia y una herramienta de desarrollo que se volvió viral, le paso la palabra a Daniel.

La narrativa de la IA soberana en Europa sufrió un golpe esta semana.

Ecosia, el buscador berlinés utilizado por servicios gubernamentales que van desde el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente de Alemania hasta el Servicio Nacional de Salud del Reino Unido, abandonó a Mistral cinco meses después de comprometerse con el proveedor francés.

El CEO, Christian Kroll, señaló que los costos se redujeron a la mitad y la calidad mejoró tras pasarse a modelos de pesos abiertos, entre ellos Qwen, GLM y Kimi, de origen chino, operados a través de una plataforma alemana de energía verde.

El viernes aclaró que se trata de arquitectura abierta, no de China.