Proton’s new encrypted AI chatbot, Lumo, places your privateness first

Proton, the privacy-focused firm behind the encrypted electronic mail service Proton Mail, has launched its personal AI chatbot known as Lumo (noticed by The Verge). In contrast to most different AI chatbots, Lumo is privacy-first.

Lumo can do a variety of the issues that different AI chatbots can do, like summarize paperwork, write emails, and generate code. However all person knowledge is saved regionally and guarded with so-called “zero-access” encryption. Which means solely you’ve the important thing to your personal content material.

Internet search is disabled by default to guard person privateness, however might be manually switched on to make use of privacy-friendly serps. Lumo may also analyze information with out saving any data. No logs are ever saved, conversations are by no means recorded, knowledge is rarely shared with third events, and your interactions aren’t used to coach AI.

Lumo’s AI mannequin relies on open-source fashions operating on servers inside Europe, together with fashions from Mistral, Nvidia, and the Allen Institute for AI. The mannequin used is chosen based mostly on what’s thought-about most applicable for the duty at hand.

Lumo is obtainable as each an online service and an app. There’s a free model with restricted performance, plus a paid model (which prices $12.99 a month) that gives limitless use and extra cupboard space.