

Here’s an example of the answer generated by Brave Search’s AI, which even uses 9to5Mac as one of the sources, when you ask about rumors of Apple’s mixed reality headset: Instead, as noted by TechCrunch, the Summarizer feature is based on different large langue models (LLMs). However, while competitors like Microsoft Bing are pushing for ChatGPT integration, Brave Search didn’t opt for OpenAI’s GPT technology. The AI-generated answer is displayed just above the web results and even includes the sources used for that piece of text. Brave Search now has its own AI to answer questionsĪs the name suggests, Summarizer uses artificial intelligence to generate a brief summary related to what the user is searching for based on multiple sources.

Now Brave Search is introducing a new AI-based feature called “Summarizer,” which comes as a response to ChatGPT. A year later, Brave Search officially became available to everyone. "The WDP is a strictly opt-in feature and protects user privacy and anonymity by design, so that contributed data cannot be linked to individuals or their devices, and cannot be linked together for a user or set of users this prevents deanonymisation," the company added.īrave also offers Brave Ads, Brave News, a Firewall+VPN service, and the recently-released Brave Talk for unlimited, private video calls.Back in 2021, the developers of the privacy-focused web browser Brave announced their own search engine to compete with Google and Bing. The announcement also said Brave was launching the Web Discovery Project, "a privacy-preserving system for users to anonymously contribute data to improve Brave Search coverage and quality, and its independence and competitiveness against Big Tech alternatives". “As we know from experience in many browsers, the default setting is crucial for adoption, and Brave Search has reached the quality and critical mass needed to become our default search option, and to offer our users a seamless privacy-by-default online experience.” Our users are pleased with the comprehensive privacy solution that Brave Search provides against Big Tech by being integrated into our browser,” said Eich, chief executive and co-founder of Brave. “Brave Search has grown significantly since its release last June, with nearly 80 million queries per month. Users of other browsers can also use the Brave search engine. Future versions of Brave Search will be supported by advertisements.Įxisting users of Brave can switch their search engine to Brave Search by going to the Settings menu. The Brave announcement said version 1.31 for Windows, the Brave Android app (1.31) and the iOS app (1.32) would all replace Google with Brave Search.
