Infomaniak // Companies handling sensitive data can now integrate generative AI into their applications, fully hosted in Switzerland and guaranteeing data control. More competitive than Mistral and OpenAI, Infomaniak’s AI as a Service is currently based on the Mixtral model, the most powerful open source alternative to ChatGPT. Available on demand as an API for developers, the AI interprets up to 32,000 tokens per prompt at launch and can model, classify and analyze complex data, as well as synthesize, reformulate, correct, translate and generate complex texts.
100% hosted in Switzerland, 100% open source
Unlike ChatGPT, the language model marketed by Infomaniak is based on Mixtral 8x7B, an open source technology whose algorithm and operation can be verified by engineers around the world. This feature also allows specific adaptations to be made to design new services and restrict the use of AI for malicious actions such as generating spam.
The information processed and transmitted to the AI is not stored by Infomaniak and is used exclusively for the needs of the client. Hosted exclusively in Switzerland on the Infomaniak infrastructure, this generative AI guarantees companies total control of data and full compliance with Swiss and European legislation.
As powerful as ChatGPT 3.5
The AI provided by Infomaniak is capable of processing texts in French, German, Spanish, Italian and English to quickly perform complex programming and data analysis tasks.
“It is only a matter of time before open source AI surpasses the best current proprietary solutions for everyday use. It is important to keep in mind that today cloud computing is mainly based on open technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and Linux-based operating systems,” explains Marc Oehler, CEO of Infomaniak.
On the operational side, the documentation provided allows developers to easily integrate AI into enterprise work environments to create virtual assistants, answer questions, summarize, classify, correct, generate, translate or perform sentiment analysis of content, for example.
As ecological as possible
Artificial intelligence consumes a lot of electricity. Infomaniak’s activities are powered exclusively by renewable energy. The energy efficiency ratio (PUE) of Infomaniak’s data centers in production is 1.09 on average, compared to 1.8 in Europe, because they are cooled exclusively with filtered natural air, without air conditioning. Currently undergoing intensive testing, Infomaniak’s new data center, where the most powerful GPUs will be installed, will fully recover the energy it consumes to heat up to 6,000 homes in winter and more than 100,000 in summer.
Additionally, Mixtral is more energy efficient than its proprietary alternatives: its architecture manages a total of 45 billion parameters, but only uses 12 billion per token, significantly reducing energy consumption while delivering superior results to Llama 2 and ChatGPT 3.5, according to the French startup.
Low cost pricing with 1 million free tokens
Users pay only for what they use, on a monthly basis. The service is billed using a token system, which is a unit of measurement corresponding to approximately 4 characters.
At launch, Infomaniak’s AI as a service offers a total of 1 million tokens, and prices lower than those of Mistral or OpenAI:
API LLM d’Infomaniak
Incoming tokens* (CHF): 0.0005/1000 tokensOutgoing tokens* (CHF): 0.0015/1000 tokensMistral small
Incoming tokens* (CHF): 0.00056/1000 tokensOutgoing chips* (CHF): 0.0017/1000 chipsGPT-3.5 Turbo
Incoming tokens* (CHF): 0.0013/1000 tokensOutgoing tokens* (CHF): 0.0018/1000 tokensAfter creating an account, the service is available immediately, and a dashboard allows you to track your consumption in real time.
*Incoming tokens refer to requests made to the AI, and outgoing tokens refer to responses generated by the AI.
Constantly evolving
With its AI as a Service, Infomaniak is committed to continuously offering the best open source AI technology. Initially launched with Falcon LLM, the service is now marketed with Mixtral 8x7B, and will continue to evolve in line with advances in this field.
Already implemented as an editorial assistant in its Mail Service and as a personal assistant in its instant messaging kChat, Infomaniak is actively deploying AI in its ecosystem.
“The next step is to allow users to connect our AI as a service to their data to provide 100% personalized answers. Our AI R&D team is currently successfully conducting tests in this direction, and we are eager to offer it to companies, with the same confidentiality guarantees,” announces Boris Siegenthaler, Strategic Director at Infomaniak.
Resources
Infomaniak is the Swiss leader in web technology development. With a 2023 turnover of more than CHF 40 million and a growth of 21% in German-speaking Switzerland, the company employs more than 220 people in Geneva and Winterthur.
Committed to privacy, local economy and a more sustainable digital future, the company develops a suite of online collaborative tools and solutions for cloud hosting, streaming, marketing and events. As an independent company, it is partly owned by its employees and solely dependent on its customers.
Infomaniak uses only renewable energy, builds its own data centers and develops its solutions in Switzerland, without relocation. As an ICANN-accredited registrar, Infomaniak’s solutions are used by millions of users. The company powers the website of Radio et Télévision Belges (RTBF) and offers streaming for more than 3,000 radio and television stations in Belgium. Europe.
In 2023, Infomaniak won the Swiss Ethics Prize and the Sustainable Development Prize of the Canton of Geneva for its new data center, which will fully recover the energy it consumes to heat homes.
Originally published in The European Times.
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