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Mistral AI

Mistral AI

A

Index

80/100

EU-hosted, regulation-aligned.

Powered by: Mistral AI

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Privacy & data handling84
Transparency77
Carbon footprint81
Water & local impact79
Labor & job displacement66
Regulatory posture91

EU AI Act aligned, French low-carbon grid, GDPR-native data handling.

Claude

Anthropic

B

Index

75/100

Long-context reasoning with a published safety policy.

Powered by: Claude (Anthropic)

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Privacy & data handling76
Transparency84
Carbon footprint66
Water & local impact62
Labor & job displacement71
Regulatory posture88

Publishes responsible scaling policy and supports binding safety regulation.

Gemini

Google DeepMind

C

Index

62/100

Huge context window, strong analysis.

Powered by: Gemini (Google)

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Privacy & data handling54
Transparency66
Carbon footprint74
Water & local impact54
Labor & job displacement56
Regulatory posture70

Water reporting aggregated at fleet level, not per site.

ChatGPT

OpenAI

D

Index

55/100

Frontier generalist with deep reasoning.

Powered by: ChatGPT (OpenAI)

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Privacy & data handling58
Transparency52
Carbon footprint61
Water & local impact55
Labor & job displacement44
Regulatory posture62

Strong benchmarks; limited disclosure of per-query energy and water intensity.

D

Index

54/100

Open-weight frontier you can self-host.

Powered by: Meta AI / Llama

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Privacy & data handling72
Transparency79
Carbon footprint49
Water & local impact41
Labor & job displacement38
Regulatory posture44

Open weights allow local inference; parent company scores poorly on water siting.

Perplexity

Perplexity AI

D

Index

52/100

Answer engine that routes queries across multiple frontier models with citations.

Powered by: Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI)

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Privacy & data handling60
Transparency52
Carbon footprint52
Water & local impact50
Labor & job displacement48
Regulatory posture52

Estimated scores pending confirmation. Multi-model aggregator, so impact varies with the routed provider.

Copilot

Microsoft

D

Index

51/100

Office-embedded assistant running on OpenAI frontier models.

Powered by: ChatGPT (OpenAI), Copilot (Microsoft)

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Privacy & data handling58
Transparency46
Carbon footprint55
Water & local impact48
Labor & job displacement44
Regulatory posture56

Estimated scores pending confirmation. Inherits OpenAI model behaviour; enterprise tenants get no-training commitments.

Qwen

Alibaba Cloud

D

Index

43/100

Strong multilingual generalist.

Powered by: Qwen3 (Alibaba)

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Privacy & data handling41
Transparency49
Carbon footprint52
Water & local impact44
Labor & job displacement40
Regulatory posture33

Coal-heavy regional grid exposure across several compute regions.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

F

Index

40/100

Extremely cheap reasoning at scale.

Powered by: DeepSeek

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Privacy & data handling38
Transparency58
Carbon footprint44
Water & local impact39
Labor & job displacement34
Regulatory posture26

Open weights, but opaque data provenance and no environmental disclosure.

Grok

xAI

F

Index

24/100

Fast, unfiltered, realtime-leaning.

Powered by: Grok (xAI)

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Privacy & data handling31
Transparency24
Carbon footprint22
Water & local impact18
Labor & job displacement29
Regulatory posture21

Memphis cluster ran unpermitted methane turbines; minimal transparency reporting.

OLMo 3

Allen Institute for AI

A

Index

89/100

Fully open data, weights, and training code.

Powered by: OLMo 3 (Allen Institute)

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Privacy & data handling92
Transparency98
Carbon footprint86
Water & local impact84
Labor & job displacement89
Regulatory posture86

Only model in the index publishing its full training corpus and compute footprint.

B

Index

76/100

Balanced daily driver for code and prose.

Powered by: Claude (Anthropic)

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Privacy & data handling76
Transparency84
Carbon footprint71
Water & local impact66
Labor & job displacement71
Regulatory posture88

Best blended performance-to-ethics ratio in the current index.

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Google DeepMind

C

Index

64/100

High-throughput multimodal at low cost.

Powered by: Gemini (Google)

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Privacy & data handling54
Transparency66
Carbon footprint79
Water & local impact58
Labor & job displacement56
Regulatory posture70

Operator reports carbon-matched grid purchasing; evaporative cooling in several regions.

D

Index

57/100

Fast, cheap frontier-adjacent workhorse.

Powered by: ChatGPT (OpenAI)

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Privacy & data handling58
Transparency52
Carbon footprint68
Water & local impact60
Labor & job displacement44
Regulatory posture62

Lower inference footprint per token than the flagship tier.