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Comment by Fnoord

3 hours ago

I'm a Kagi subscriber, too. But it is also partly a proxy for Google Search. My worry is the impact of Google Search quality degradation on Kagi. Mojeek doesn't cut it.

I end up doing a lot of searching with Mistral Le Chat (also a subscriber).

What I'd like to know is power cost difference between the two (on the server-side). Ie. is Mistral sustainable financially or are they also running on vc / burning money. Although France uses nuclear, so it is a drop in a bucket I suppose.

I use Le Chat as default search engine, using this search engine string: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat?q=Give%20a%20list%20of%20links%...

(In most browsers, you can input any URL with %s as the query string.)

A negative is the high latency.

(Looks like Mistral is not profitable yet[0]. It expects 1 G$ revenue for 1 G$ capex in 2026[1], so it is moving towards profitability, but to be fair it is building a couple datacenters.)

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-franc...

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-01-22/mistral-ceo...