A new chatbot called AI Chat has been launched through the privacy-focused search engine, DuckDuckGo. This robot has been tested over the past few months and is now available to everyone.
DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat distinguishes itself from Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT by allowing you to access multiple chatbots in one place, instead of relying on large language models like other bots.
Currently, you can choose from several chatbots such as OpenAI’s GPT 3.5, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 3, and Mistral’s Mistral 8x7B, with more models planned to be added soon.
The main differences between these models lie in the number of variables each model contains. If you are not satisfied with a specific model’s solution, you can try another one.
The smart chat is available for free but limited to daily usage limits, and DuckDuckGo plans to explore a paid plan that allows broader access and use of more advanced artificial intelligence models.
You can use artificial intelligence technology to ask questions, edit emails, write code snippets, design travel itineraries, and more, but it currently cannot create images.
DuckDuckGo emphasizes the privacy of using AI Chat technology compared to using ChatGPT or Claude technologies alone. The search engine claims that the questions and answers will not be used to train artificial intelligence models.
The search engine stated: “We summon chatbots on your behalf, remove your IP address completely, and use our own IP address instead, making requests appear as if they are from us and not from you.”
DuckDuckGo noted that AI providers may temporarily store conversations but are unable to track them back to you.
If you prefer not to use chatbots while browsing incognito, you can easily disable this feature through DuckDuckGo.
Last year, DuckDuckGo introduced a new feature called DuckAssist, which provides AI-generated summaries at the top of search results. DuckAssist is similar to Google’s AI Overviews feature, but it relies on reliable sources like Wikipedia to generate responses.
DuckDuckGo believes that AI Chat and DuckAssist complement each other perfectly, stating: “If you start using the search engine, you may want to switch to AI Chat for more frequent inquiries, to help interpret the information you have read, or to get quick and direct answers to new questions that may not have been addressed on the pages you have visited online.”
