[mchiang]

We work with search providers and ensure that we have zero data retention policies in place.

The search results are yours to own and use. You are free to do what you want with it. Of course you are bound by local laws of the legal jurisdiction you are in.

[simonw]

OK, so it looks like you aren't willing to share which providers you are working with. Can you share the rationale for not sharing that information instead?

[mchiang]

We have relationships with many providers and I don't want to be seen as promoting or not promoting a specific provider. Some decent privacy-preserving vendors - Brave, Exa, Parallel Web Systems, DuckDuckGo etc

We will continue to monitor what's good to improve the output quality and results. Sometimes it could be the combination of providers to yield even better results. If I say one combination right now, and realize another combination is better, and make changes, I wouldn't need to broadcast it each time or risk misrepresenting the feature, which is to have amazing search and research capabilities that can augment models for a superior output.

[jpencausse]

Would be curious about legal statement with EU AI Act that kills Bing API (Microsoft switch to Grounding Bing that rephrase the content)

Yes, Ephemeral queries must not retain any data, but there is also other rules, for instance it is forbidden for commercial services (where Ollama have a pricing model ?).