Brave Browser Gets AI Assistant Leo

The Brave browser, which provides users with increased privacy, has received an AI chatbot Leo. The Leo intelligent assistant was first introduced for testing three months ago as part of the browser’s nightly builds on the early access channel. However, with the release of Brave 1.60, all users of the desktop version of the browser can take advantage of Leo as it is now a standard feature.

Brave Leo is a chat assistant from Brave that does not use third-party AI services and is available to Brave users in the Nightly version of the desktop browser. Leo is built on top of Llama 2, a large open-source language model from Meta that is extremely security-conscious. It ensures the anonymity of user requests through the use of a reverse proxy when transmitting data to its infrastructure. Thanks to this, Brave can boast of delivering the most private AI in its class.

Leo offers a number of useful features, such as creating real-time summaries of web pages and videos, translating pages, helping you solve various problems, and so on. Beyond that, of course, users can simply ask Leo questions.

If you’re using Leo, the browser will share with the server your last request, the history of the current conversation, and, if the use case requires it, only the necessary context from the page you’re currently on (this could be, for example, the text of an article or a transcript of a YouTube video).

For those who want more functionality, access to Leo Premium is available, which costs $15 per month. In the paid version, Brave offers access to additional large language models and Anthropic’s Claude Instant, which is described as “a lighter model that’s good at reasoning and coding.”