A new European chatbot that bets on privacy and servers in the EU

The European space is richer for its own artificial intelligence platform. Austrian startup newsroom.ai has officially concluded a pilot testing period with around 5,000 users and offered the eustella chatbot to the public. The creators are deliberately positioning it as a counterweight to established American and Chinese solutions such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.

The eustella chatbot does not contain its own closed systems, but rather leverages the power of the best currently available open source models. These include Google's Gemma 4, Alibaba's Qwen 3.5/3.7, OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, and the French Mistral. The Flux model from Black Forest Labs is responsible for generating the image material. The developers promise a high level of flexibility, as they plan to integrate any new open source model that will yield better results in the future.

The main advantage of eustella is its uncompromising commitment to privacy. Users have full control over their data, and the system does not create any user profiles and does not track the habits of individuals. All infrastructure is hosted on European soil, more precisely in Berlin, Frankfurt and other EU cities, and the server operator is the German company IONOS CLOUD. Access to the data is denied even to the cloud provider itself, as the information is encrypted and is under no circumstances used to learn and train artificial intelligence.

With the official release, the developers also revealed the pricing policy. Users can create a completely free account, with the exact limits of free use being tested in more detail in the coming days. For the more demanding, there are three subscription packages available, the cheapest of which costs 5.99 euros per month and brings four times the usage limit compared to the basic, free version.

The platform can be accessed via mobile applications for Android and iOS or directly in a web browser. Group chats and direct web search are supported. During testing, it turned out that eustella currently generates program code only in the form of text for copying, but cannot directly create independent files such as images or documents. However, since promotional materials also promise the preparation of presentations and documents, this area will definitely need to be checked in more detail.

Finally, it is worth mentioning business partnerships. The Austrians are working with Bitpanda and Geizhals, whose databases are already integrated into the operation of artificial intelligence. When a user asks about electronic devices or cryptocurrencies, eustella extracts data in real time directly from the aforementioned platforms via APIs. Additional collaborations with other companies are still in the development phase.