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Chat with Andisearch
The difference of using an independent LLM not altered by large companies.
In the future we will have lots of options. A colleague is self hosting some of the open source models and it's very nice to not have the big tech censorship in there.
Is this really just free? I’ve never heard of this.
Yes, it's anonymous and 100%free to use (I use it since almost 2 Years as my main search engine). In the futur they will release an paid pro versión which include an webclipper and some collaboration features, but that don't change anything to the search app, this will stay free. Not very known, despite that Andi (former Lazy Web) was the first AI search ever, long before the ones from Google, M$ and others, with own independent LLM. I think it was hidden from the searches by these big companies, maybe because:
Thank you for introducing me to this! I haven’t used LLMs in the past, I will play around with this!