The latest trend is to integrate digital assistants powered by artificial intelligence within web browsers. With Gemini integration coming to Chrome, developers of Brave they don’t want to be outdone and extend Leoa tool based on the generative model Mistral 8x7B which aims to help users by offering a series of additional features when browsing online, even to Android devices.
Already available in the desktop versions of the Brave browser, Leo now also lands on mobile devices by enabling the use of LLM (Large Language Models) such as Mistral 8x7B, Claude Instant and Llama 2 13B. The default setting for all users is Mistral 8x7B but by accessing the settings, you can express your preference and use the other available models.
Leo’s digital assistant comes in two versions: There’s that free is that premium. The latter costs $14.99 per month, offers higher usage limits and can be used simultaneously on 5 devices, on any of the supported platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android).
What is Brave Leo and how does it work on Android
While the iOS version of Leo is not yet available, users who own a device Android they can try the AI-based digital assistant simply by installing Brave Private Web Browser or updating it to the latest release recently released.
At this point, you can benefit from the wide range of skills offered by Leo. The assistant can for example summarize web pages o video, answer questions generic or very specific on the content you are viewing, translate pages, write code, create transcripts from videos or audio clips and generate textual content.
To invoke Leo’s intervention, simply tap the “star” button (or asterisk) that enables AI features. For start a chat actual with the generative model, you must access the main menu by touching the three dots icon at the bottom right, and then choose the item Leo.
It’s a shame that Leo, to this day, doesn’t seem to immediately recognize it lingua where a web page is written. If you ask to generate a summary, for example, the assistant tends to produce it in English. Nothing prevents you from subsequently imparting an instruction such as “translate in Europen” or “explains in Europen“.
Leo and privacy
The developers of Brave want to reassure users regarding the use of their data. In fact, to access Leo, users do not have to activate anything user accounts and the chatbot does not record conversations or “recycle” content for model training and optimization purposes.
All user requests are routed through a anonymization server: User IDs and requests made to the generated model are automatically decoupled. Furthermore, the answers offered by Leo are deleted from the Brave servers immediately after generation (the output based on models Anthropicread it Claudeare removed after 30 days).
Furthermore, neither the digital assistant nor the browser collect user identifiers, including users IP addresses used.