Brave Search Engine Gains AI-Powered 'Summarizer' Option

[MacRumors]

Open-source privacy-focused browser Brave today introduced a new "Summarizer" option for its dedicated search engine, Brave Search.

Powered by large language models (LLMs), the Summarizer is designed to offer up concise answers at the top of the Brave Search results page for any query. This is not a generative AI model like OpenAI, as the LLMs trained by Brave are processing multiple sources of information solely from web results.

Google Search has long offered a similar summarization feature, but it is typically based on a single result from a website chosen as an authoritative source rather than multiple websites.

Brave says that using web search results for the Summarizer provides an accurate answer that is expressed in coherent language. Data is also cited via links for accurate attribution of information and to allow users to assess the trustworthiness of sources. Responses are only as accurate as the websites that the browser uses for the summary, but each source is clearly defined.

The Summarizer will also provide improved search result descriptions by using a summary rather than a snippet of text pulled from a website.

Brave's Summarizer feature is available for all Brave Search users starting today, on both desktop and mobile. Brave users who don't want the Summarizer can turn it off in the settings.

More information on the Summarizer and how it works can be found on Brave's website.

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[surfzen21]

There are going to be a lot of husbands who will be wishing this could work on their wives story time. 😂

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Ohhhhh, I like this feature. Seems to be accurate and works like magic.

 

[nt5672]

Not available for me. Guess we have to wait for a release. It would be nice to know what version this is active in.

Not that I want it, but rather I wanted to make sure it was turned off. I don't want to see what someone or some AI thinks things mean, I want to see what the search returned.

 

[mystery hill]

Ohhhhh, I like this feature. Seems to be accurate!

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That’s just a regular search result. It doesn’t look like it’s using the “Summarizer” option?

I also like the iPhone 15 though, and even better if it’s free.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Still not switching off of FireFox lmao

 

[antiprotest]

There are going to be a lot of husbands who will be wishing this could work on their wives story time. 😂

To be fair, women would like to use it on mansplaining.

 

[mystery hill]

Still not switching off of FireFox lmao

Wish Apple Pay worked with third-party browsers on macOS.

 

[surfzen21]

To be fair, women would like to use it on mansplaining.

LMAO

I would think they would want to just mute that 🤣

 

[enterthemerdaverse]

Nothing will make me use this sham browser.

It’s called Brave because you have to be brave enough to install this without puking.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Wish Apple Pay worked with third-party browsers on macOS.

It does. Use Orion Browser. It's a webkit browser so iCloud Keychain, Apple Pay, Touch ID, and Apple Account quick logins work on it. Difference between Safari and Orion is Orion has a compatibility mode so it can run websites that were made for Chrome in mind and don't work on Safari, and unlike Safari IT ACTUALLY HAS PLUGINS! All of Chrome and Firefox's plugins work on Orion.

Orion Browser by Kagi

browser.kagi.com

Ironic that a third party browser is a better webkit browser than Apple's official offering.

 

[neliason]

Why doesn’t Apple include Brave search engine as an option for Safari? It has Yahoo but not Brave.

 

[MonkeySpank158]

agreed. I prefer brave over duckduckgo at this point. And Brave is not that bad of a browser, its the only one I use on my windows work PC.

 

[Infinite Vortex]

Lets hope Apple doesn't block all things AI…

Apple blocks update to email app with ChatGPT tech

Apple Inc has blocked an update to email app BlueMail, which uses a customized version of OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, the co-founder of the app developer told Reuters on Thursday.

www.reuters.com

… because on the surface of it it looks to me like they're going to want to stop everyone using someone else's AI until they can catch up with Siri+.

 

[sw1tcher]

Ohhhhh, I like this feature. Seems to be accurate and works like magic.

Oh oh. Better edit your post ASAP before Apple lawyers send MR a cease and desist for that phrase. Steve Jobs has a trademark on it.

 

[mthomas184]

It does. Use Orion Browser. It's a webkit browser so iCloud Keychain, Apple Pay, Touch ID, and Apple Account quick logins work on it. Difference between Safari and Orion is Orion has a compatibility mode so it can run websites that were made for Chrome in mind and don't work on Safari, and unlike Safari IT ACTUALLY HAS PLUGINS! All of Chrome and Firefox's plugins work on Orion.

Orion Browser by Kagi

browser.kagi.com

Ironic that a third party browser is a better webkit browser than Apple's official offering.

Ive read some things that the browser is not good. How is it?

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Ive read some things that the browser is not good. How is it?

Aside from FireFox it's now my browser of choice. Bear in mind Orion is in beta as they haven't had their 1.0 release yet so there may be some hiccups. Otherwise, it's literally just Safari but good.

 

[mthomas184]

Aside from FireFox it's now my browser of choice. Bear in mind Orion is in beta as they haven't had their 1.0 release yet so there may be some hiccups. Otherwise, it's literally just Safari but good.

The only thing that I noticed that doesn't work for me is keychain. I can access it but on sites it doesn't show that I have a password for it unless I manually search in Keychain for it.

Disregard. I saw it in the FAQ

 

[nt5672]

......

… because on the surface of it it looks to me like they're going to want to stop everyone using someone else's AI until they can catch up with Siri+.

Never going to happen. They'll remove Siri, then wait a year and purchase something else and bezingo we'll have appleGPT.

That is if they do Siri like they seem to do all other functionality.

Siri is not architecturally capable of what modern AI can do.

 

[canadianreader]

Still not switching off of FireFox lmao

You still can use their search engine without switching to their browser

 

[lazyrighteye]

Not available for me. Guess we have to wait for a release. It would be nice to know what version this is active in.

Not that I want it, but rather I wanted to make sure it was turned off. I don't want to see what someone or some AI thinks things mean, I want to see what the search returned.

Real question, not snark: what's the difference between what the AI thinks things mean vs the search results AI produces?

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

The only thing that I noticed that doesn't work for me is keychain. I can access it but on sites it doesn't show that I have a password for it unless I manually search in Keychain for it.

Disregard. I saw it in the FAQ

Lmao. Yeah I was about to say I had Keychain passwords autofilling working just fine on Orion

 

[lazyrighteye]

I finally switched over to DuckDuckGo last month (no idea, aside from laziness, why it took me so long to switch my default browser).

Anyone with experience using both have any pros/cons to share? I like what I'm seeing bout Brave, but today is honestly the first time I have heard about it. 😜

 

[Infinite Vortex]

Siri is not architecturally capable of what modern AI can do.

And does anyone think Bing is capable, architecturally or not, of anything more than a grunt?

 

[Airforcekid]

I finally switched over to DuckDuckGo last month (no idea, aside from laziness, why it took me so long to switch my default browser).

Anyone with experience using both have any pros/cons to share? I like what I'm seeing bout Brave, but today is honestly the first time I have heard about it. 😜

Brave the browser and search are both amazing. Two downsides though the built in blocklists are not great highly recommend adding oisd.nl to the custom section and the crypto integration can be a turn off thankfully on the first start just say no thanks to it and it never appears again.