Microsoft Bing isn’t the only search engine pivoting after ChatGPT.
Privacy-focused browser maker Brave has launched an AI-powered feature called ‘Summarizer’ for its search engine.
Brave launched its search engine two years ago after acquiring the Tailcat search engine. The company pledged to take on Google with a focus on privacy and an independent search index — rather than relying on, for example, Microsoft’s Bing search index, as DuckDuckGo did.
Now, in response to the success of the large language models (LLMs) behind OpenAI’s Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, Brave has launched Summarizer on Brave search, which it says is not based on ChatGPT.
Summarizer is a bit like Google’s featured snippets descriptions on a results page, which lists the source of the information. Google tweaked this feature last year to avoid summaries based on bogus information. But, according to Brave, while the Summarizer uses LLMs, it’s not prone to the odd musings of other AI chatbots.
