DuckDuckGo has announced the official launch of its AI Chat feature, offering users anonymous access to various AI models. The free service, which has exited beta, supports OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, and two open-source models: Meta Llama 3 and Mistral’s Mixtral 8x7B, with plans to add more in the future.
Key features of DuckDuckGo AI Chat include:
- Privacy and Anonymity: Chats are private and anonymized by DuckDuckGo, ensuring they are not used for AI model training.
- Accessibility: Users can access the chat at duck.ai, duckduckgo.com/chat, on the search results page under the Chat tab, or via the !ai and !chat bang shortcuts.
- Future Improvements: Plans to add more chat models and browser entry points. A paid plan is also being explored to offer higher daily usage limits and access to more advanced models.
DuckDuckGo emphasizes that while the underlying model providers may temporarily store chats, they cannot link the data back to individual users since all metadata is removed.
For more information, check out DuckDuckGo’s announcement post. Share your thoughts on this new AI implementation in the comments!
