Brave is rolling out its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all Android users. Users may utilize the assistant to ask questions, translate sites, summarize pages, produce content, and do other tasks. The Android release comes a few months after Brave introduced Leo on desktop. Brave claims Leo will be available on iOS devices in the coming weeks.
Leo can make real-time summaries of websites or videos, answer content-related inquiries, develop long-form written material, translate or rewrite pages, create video or audio transcriptions, and write code. With Leo, Brave hopes that its customers will stop using ChatGPT or other popular LLMs for jobs and inquiries and instead utilize its service.
You may use Leo to prepare a supper dish, obtain travel advice, evaluate items before purchasing them, and summarize a lengthy website that you don’t have time to read in its entirety.
Leo provides access to Mixtral 8x7B, Anthropic’s Claude Instant, and Meta’s Llama 2 13B. Brave has selected Mixtral 8x7B as the default LLM for Leo on PC and Android, but users may choose from various LLMs or pay Leo Premium for greater rate limitations at $14.99 per month. One membership covers up to five devices running Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Brave states that discussions with Leo are confidential and that they are not recorded or used for model training. All requests are proxied via an anonymization server, and Leo replies are destroyed once produced. Additionally, users do not need to register a Brave account to utilize Leo. If you do sign up for a subscription, Brave claims all subscriptions are verified using unlinkable tokens, so the firm has no knowledge of your behavior or email address.
To get started with Leo on Android, open the browser, type in the URL bar, and choose “Ask Leo.” If you wish to use the on-page chat feature, go to the three-dot menu and then hit “Leo.”
To access Leo, Android users must first upgrade to version 1.63. If you haven’t seen Brave Leo for Android yet, that’s because it will be released in stages over the next several days.
Brave is not the only browser firm that has recently developed an AI helper; Opera also debuted an AI assistant named Aria last year. The product was developed in partnership with OpenAI and has a chatbot-like interface that allows you to ask it questions and get replies.
