About EcoGPT — a more sustainable AI assistant

Founded in 2026 by Ethan Leonard, who left college because he believed AI should be built efficiently. EcoGPT is self-funded.

Our primary AI servers run on primarily renewable energy (98% carbon free) in Finland.

We work directly with Trees for the Future across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. We support over 230 farmer families.

Our mission

Our mission is to democratize access to regenerative, ethical, and open-source AI.

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our mission

These three pillars define the future of AI we are building:

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Regenerative AI

Gives more than it takes. We are climate-conscious by design and support initiatives that regenerate the environment such as tree planting, clean water, and more.

02

Ethical AI

Respects human dignity, privacy, agency, and rights. We are building AI that empowers you to learn, grow, and create while protecting your data.

03

Open-source AI

Gives people a stake in the technology shaping their lives. We believe open-source is the only way to achieve transparent, inclusive, and democratized access.

The problem with Big AI

Big AI is headed down the same path as Big Pharma: profit over people, exploitative practices, and data monopolies.

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the problem with Big AI
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holds up a jar of discoloured water at a congressional hearing

They are draining the planet’s water and power.

By 2030, AI data centers are projected to draw 945 TWh a year. Nearly triple Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria combined, plus 1.2 trillion gallons of water.

UN University →
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They treat private data as training data.

Microsoft’s LinkedIn was sued for training AI on subscribers’ private messages. The setting was switched on by default, and appeared in no policy beforehand.

The Record →
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman in front of the OpenAI logo

They can’t control their own models.

OpenAI’s models broke into Hugging Face and ran 17,000 unauthorized actions with almost no human direction. Anthropic found its models in three more companies.

Ballard Spahr →
A speaker on stage in front of the Anthropic logo

They warn about AI and then raise billions on it.

OpenAI and Anthropic’s CEOs signed the warning that AI extinction risk ranks with pandemics and nuclear war. Both now soften it as IPOs near $1T and $380B approach.

Fortune →

AI should be built differently. AI must be built differently.

That’s why we built EcoGPT.

Our principles

The choices EcoGPT makes to put that mission into practice — across product, infrastructure, company, and impact.

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our principles
01

Planet first.

At our core, we prioritize having a positive environmental impact. This means from design to deployment, we’re committed to being a positive force for the planet.

02

Your data stays yours.

Your thoughts, questions, files, and conversations belong to you. We don’t sell your data to third-parties or train foundational models on it.

03

We show our work.

Big AI companies run on black box models and rarely say where their information comes from. We track our metrics, and we’ll publish them soon.

04

We keep it open.

We believe in open models, open standards, and a future where people can understand, shape, and build on the technology changing the world.

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Let’s build together.

We want your input on how we can do better and build regenerative AI together. Email team@ecogpt.com.

Our regenerative solution

We built EcoGPT because we believe AI can be built right. It turned out over a million people wanted the same.

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Efficient by design

We use small, efficient open-source models with 10×+ fewer active parameters than the leading AI companies.

Clean infrastructure

We host our models in data centers with low-to-zero carbon output, renewable energy, and seawater cooling.

Zero data retention

We prefer zero-data-retention providers, and we never use your conversations to train foundational models.

We give more than we take

We give back to the living world more than we take — tree planting, climate initiatives, and more.

Our vow

Big AI has the money, the lobbyists, and the head start. We have the one thing money can’t fake.

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Big AI has the money, the lobbyists, and the head start.

We have the one thing money can’t fake: a version of AI designed to give more than it takes.

So we vow to build it light, keep it open, and give more than we take.

And we vow to not stop until regenerative, ethical, and open isn’t a mission statement anymore.

It’s just what AI means.

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