Brave Leo AI Assistant Integration: Brave Software Enhances User Experience
Brave Software is the company behind the privacy-focused search engine and web browser. It has taken a momentous step forward by incorporating its Leo AI assistant with its own search results. This combination is designed to provide users with more up-to-date information.
The search results are based on the Brave Search API, and Leo is integrated directly into the company’s browser. This allows users to fetch information like the latest scores, pull more context related to the topic while reading an article, and search recent and relevant topics to create social media posts.
Brave highlights that this incorporation is privacy-forward as it doesn’t require users to log in, and it doesn’t store conversations with the AI chatbot on its server. The company also doesn’t use the responses to train its model. To further guarantee user privacy, requests are sent to an anonymization server first to hide a user’s identity.
Users can also purchase Leo Premium at $14.99/month, which provides higher rate limits and access to the latest models. The company issues un linkable tokens when you buy the subscription to prevent any personal identification.
Brave has tried to build its AI capability to attract more users to its browser and search engine. The company launched AI-powered summarization for its search product last year to show users the gist of answers to a search query. It also made the Leo AI Assistant available to everyone in November 2023. In April, the company introduced an AI Answer engine to search to answer users’ queries.
Other browsers such as Edge, Opera, Arc, and SigmaOS have integrated AI to varying degrees. Brave likely wants to use its advantage of owning both a browser and search stack to refine its product.
Brave’s Leo AI assistant is now available in the Nightly version for testing. The model behind Leo is Llama 2, a source-available large language model released by Meta with a special focus on safety. User inputs are always submitted anonymously through a reverse-proxy to Brave’s inference infrastructure. This guarantees an AI experience with unparalleled privacy.
Brave Search was launched two years ago. It has grown to serve an average of 25 million queries per day. The company says Brave Search is the default search engine for many of Brave’s more than 60 million users. Brave’s Leo AI assistant is now available to desktop users.
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