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Ask HN: Is there a free equivalent of ChatGPT today?

2 pointsby p1anecrazy10 months ago
I&#x27;m an early adopter and paying customer of ChatGPT but I keep hearing that several other models managed to catch up. I use it 1-2 times a day to satisfy my personal and professional curiosity (so it would be nice if it could be more or less up to date on contemporary cloud platform engineering).<p>I tried using built-in AI in Bing but it&#x27;s answers feel very shallow (I assume it is ChatGPT-based but is very token-&#x2F;resource-restricted).<p>Is there a way to send those 300 bucks a year to an ETF and use a free service?

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r72110 months ago
DDG AI chat provides 4 LLMs for free: GPT-4o mini, Claude 3 Haiku, Llama 3.1 70B, Mixtral 8x7B<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&amp;ia=chat&amp;duckai=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&amp;ia=chat&amp;duckai=...</a><p>Blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;ai-chat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;ai-chat&#x2F;</a>
xenospn10 months ago
You can install a local model like llama and try that. It’ll be free, but I’m not sure it’s as good as Claude or GPT.
neduma10 months ago
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.ai" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.ai</a><p>BTW, which etf you are betting?