Brave browser launches AI assistant "Leo": focus on privacy security, premium version of access to the Claude model

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens, soft media users 1520111, Alejandro86, OC_Formula for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, November 5 (Xinhua)-- Brave browser recently announced through its official blog that after three months of testing, the Brave browser's built-in AI assistant "Leo" is now available to all users and will be released in its desktop version 1.60 update.

According to reports, Leo can help users accomplish a variety of tasks, such as creating real-time summaries of web pages or videos, answering questions and generating new content. At the same time, it can analyze, translate and even rewrite the content of the web page.

Leo will also focus on the "maintenance of user privacy" feature, which officially claims that users' conversations with Leo are private, anonymous and secure. It does not record chats, uses them for model training, and can be used without logging in.

"using AI to ask questions and get help is becoming more and more common," said Brain Bondy, CEO and co-founder of Brave. "it can be a powerful tool, but it also brings more and more data privacy issues, so a privacy-first solution is needed."

By default, Leo is available to users free of charge, and the built-in is the Llama 2 language model provided by Meta. At the same time, Brave also offers a premium version of Leo, which costs $15 a month (CTOnews.com Note: currently about RMB 110), with a built-in Claude Instant model from Anthropic, which is good at logical reasoning, coding and multilingualism.

CTOnews.com previously reported that after Microsoft's Bing Chat was extended to Chrome in August, its next goal was to expand to Safari and Brave-a message revealed by Microsoft advertising and web service CEO Mikhail Parahin, who said he was still fixing several "strange UX problems".