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Brave Browser added an AI Assistant - LEO

809 sats \ 7 comments \ @rod 27 Aug 2023 meta

Summary

Named "LEO", Brave, as all the other major browsers is adding its "AI assistance".
Hosted by Brave themselves
Using LLM (Large Language Model), open sourced by Meta and Microsoft¹
Focuses on privacy, user inputs are submitted through a reverse-proxy
Brave claim they tuned the model prompt to adhere to Brave’s core values (meaning, biased to our believe system, whatever that is)

For more information, check their blog on the release²

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 27 Aug 2023

Seems like everyone and their grandma is pushing out an LLM option, but I'm still not understanding what is the business model behind all of this? I get open AI and these guys are selling API calls but what are these other guys doing to make money?

Google is burning cash trying to catch up with BARD and Microsoft has added it to paid products like Office to keep that monopoly going and also trying to offer it in Bing search which makes some money off ads, but for the other services like I recently saw a travel agency launch an LLM, like is it going to convince you to buy a ticket?

I think this stuff is another hype train like lets tokenise everything

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 27 Aug 2023

Those companies are all toast. Companies in the middle, interfacing directly with OpenAI or Bing.

Any SAAS business is in the cross-hairs. Not unless they own decades of the data and are the glue to these retail systems.

Heck even advertising I believe is going to be crazy different.. if no one is paid for customers clicking through to find articles (if any answer is available at the drop of the hat). These LLMs will just order what they know you want already, potentially without asking.

What I’m really intrigued about is fully autonomous 1 or 0 person companies that achieve scale. Can’t wait to see more of that.

But to answer your questions, there’s going to be an LLM for everyone. It’s going to be so trivial to customize them to your preferences, already almost becoming a commodity.

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @oraltosun 27 Aug 2023

Cool...

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @sahil 27 Aug 2023

Please stop calling it open source: https://blog.opensource.org/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source

And also:

Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deepologic 27 Aug 2023

Brave? No...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @teodor 27 Aug 2023

Brave? Not so private... I gave up to it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tjacten 27 Aug 2023

Nice, it's about time. We need this badly. Maybe there can be a tutorial on how we can replace the shortcut button of Google assistance?

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