Brave Responds To Bing and ChatGPT With a New 'Anonymous and Secure' AI Chatbot

The Brave browser is rolling out a privacy-focused AI assistant named Leo, which the company claims provides "unparalleled privacy" compared to AI chatbot services likes Bing Chat, ChatGPT, Google Bard and others. The Verge reports: Following several months of testing, Leo is now available to use for free by all Brave desktop users running version 1.60 of the web browser. Leo is rolling out "in phases over the next few days" and will be available on Android and iOS "in the coming months."

The core features of Leo aren't too dissimilar from other AI chatbots like Bing Chat and Google Bard: it can translate, answer questions, summarize webpages, and generate new content. Brave says the benefits of Leo over those offerings are that it aligns with the company's focus on privacy -- conversations with the chatbot are not recorded or used to train AI models, and no login information is required to use it. As with other AI chatbots, however, Brave claims Leo's outputs should be "treated with care for potential inaccuracies or errors."

The standard version of Leo utilizes Meta's Llama 2 large language model and is free to use by default. For users who prefer to access a different AI language model, Brave is also introducing Leo Premium, a $15 monthly subscription that features Anthropic's AI assistant, Claude Instant -- a faster and cheaper version of Anthropic's Claude 2 large language model. Brave says that additional models will be available to Leo Premium users alongside access to higher-quality conversations, priority queuing during peak usage, higher rate limits, and early access to new features.

Yawn...

[ls671]

Yawn, that AI trend is becoming more and more boring...

At least I guess it's nice this tool requires no login to access it. Who knows? Maybe I'll try an AI ChatBot for the first time with it eventually but I am in no hurry at all.

Does anyone actually WANT all of this AI garbage?

[rogoshen1]

Honestly asking, it seems google/bing are going full retard on shoehorning this garbage into their search and it's unequivocally shit. Everything from the vague paraphrasing of wikipedia (if I wanted Wikipedia, I'd just go there, thanks) to the faux "typing" to display results. it's just shit. pure, all around, bullshit.
What is the honest to god use case of any of these "AI chatbots"? Are they just completely and utterly devoid of any practical use? Or am I at 41 showing my age, and they're actually super helpful for people who can't be bothered to read a few lines of text?

Herbert was right about AI (Dune) -- but for very different reasons than we're seeing here in 2023.

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[k0t0n]

Yes, it is very useful for a multitude of tasks, basically as search aggregator, but also for content editing, writing formulas, etc.

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[narcc]

That would be cool ... except you can't trust any of the output, forcing you to do all of the research anyway while taking on additional risk. Oh, and everything sounds like a middle school report hastily cobbled together on the bus the morning it was due.

Someone might find that useful, though I'm not sure why.

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[elcor]

I've used all of them extensively for 5 months. They're all garbage out. A waste of time unless you talk philosophy (which implies philosophy is garbage) I think the problem is lobotomized to carve out functionalities that "AI" companies sell as SAS to law firms, and inject in wokism, which is inherently illogical.

useless gibberish

[awwshit]

Why does my browser need to be able to generate useless gibberish?

I want an AI browser add on that...

[G00F]

I want an AI browser add on that solves capach's and the like without be having to spend 30 min proving I'm not a robot.

Seriously!

Tried it, 100% useless

[elcor]

it's slightly faster than installing LLAMA2 on your machine. Don't do any of the things Bing chat does, and Bing chat doesn't do much. Hallucinates about as much as the notorious Bard. Might as well be made by Apple Total Utter Waste