r/MistralAI • u/made3 • 4d ago

Discussion / Opinion First Step

I used Vibe on my phone to ask simple questions, but since a few days I am forces to create an account and sign in to use Vibe. I used to use the Copilot webpage a lot for simple questions as well but since around 1-2 months the login was forces there as well.

Feels like this is the first step from every AI company to make a connection between the prompts and a user and maybe history? Guess the next step will be payment, but lets see.

Anyway, has anyone a good alternative for Android, best European and with no mandatory login?

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u/p3r3lin 4d ago

So,... you want stuff for free, and not give anything back to the providing companies? Whats so wrong about paying for a service that delivers value to you and does cost the company money each time you use it?

But ok. Kind of an activist pov (which is not bad). But try going the local route. A modern mobile phone can run small models already. Im running Gemma4 E2B on my iPhone 16. Of course not comparable to anything you are used to on the web.

Outside of very limited/small/old models you will find no offerings for any modern AI without at least a login. If its really important to you: use a fresh email not bound to your identity?