They seem to have
You say Duck is trust-based? Isn’t NanoGPT even more so? They say they use TEE, but how do you actually verify that?
They’re both trust-based. It’s a similar model to a VPN, you’re just shifting trust. Though NanoGPT lets you pay with cryptocurrency so you at least have the ability not to connect your identity to a payment method like a credit card would
TEE only applies to certain models on NanoGPT. Not sure if there is a way to verify that on NanoGPT, but with MapleAI you supposedly can https://trymaple.ai/proof
I just had a pretty bad experience with my Maple account and deleted it. The model was claiming that it was ChatGPT 4. When I messaged support about it they said this is “common with open source models” which I haven’t experienced at all with open source models.
That’s quite common though. You can see the same in a lot of AI systems. AI is famous for hallucinating and this is a prime example. They could give it a system prompt where they define some facts but they probably don’t do that.
OpenRouter allows paying with cryptocurrency so it seems to have similar privacy guarantees as NanoGPT.
Just thought I’d mention here, maybe someone has but I missed it, Duck.ai actually does have one TEE model, gpt-oss. You can’t use the upload feature with it though, but you can search the web, which is nice.
I’m currently liking duck.ai for web searches and then Privatemode for things that I don’t need to search. I use Lumo sometimes with very specific prompts but I still just find it limited compared to these other options.
I’m trying to wean off Perplexity but its search is so good that I still use it with an anon email in incognito mode.