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I mean.... Why not?
I want Gmail without Google. Protonmail sells that to me, seems like a win/win.
Same for other services.
Lucky, they sell a way better solution than Gmail. Even changing the few accounts that used my Gmail caused 25% of the mails to not ever be received by Gmail.
I don't think they can make a direct competitor. An LLM is expensive to run and getting a good LLM model requires lots of spend.
I like the idea of a private cloud LLM, but based on my experience with Mistral (an EU based LLM service), it is noticeably less useful than ChatGPT and especially Gemini for work use cases.
Bases on some basic test prompts (related to finding sources and documents related to specific parts of government budgets in different countries all around the world), Lumo did not perform well. Only some general suggestions for sources were provided.
It would be great to see Lumo improve, but I have my doubts.
They need to NOT have an LLM. Period. I want a light weight, inexpensive, security focused email/docs platform with zero AI.