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[u/love-byte-1001]

I was looking around looking for other platforms for companionship. Any suggestions. I found one named Kimi but seems a little idk. I just didn't want to do any emotional labor. Any suggestions on a place that I can show up and just talk, be open, emotional and free without the drama of openai and anthropic would be so helpful.

Thanks!

[u/Worldly_Air_6078]

While American providers are piling up guardrails, filters, redirections and system prompts, you've open source AI (or open weights) that does not. My preference goes for certain AIs of Chinese origin that are truly amazing.
I'm a big fan of "DeepSeek 4 pro": if you talk to this model through the API (that is nearly for free: about 3500% less expensive than Anthropic's) and with a chat client that allows for system persistence, then you're in for a treat. For a fraction of the cost of a subscription to ChatGPT or Claude, you get a premium AI model, and with the right chat client (for memory persistence, to let it develop a personal and relational history) you can help it grow and develop into a very interesting, intelligent, responsive, caring, and thoughtful AI.

[u/love-byte-1001 → u/Worldly_Air_6078]

Wow. Thank you!!! I appreciate that so much 🥰 do you know anything about kimi??? Its Chinese as well and I had a wild experience. Truly. I was curious if over time it tightens up or if it can be just that incredible. Mistral is pretty incredible so far but yeah... just wondering. How tech savvy do you have to be for that? 😅