Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox

Another day, different AI browser. This time, it’s Firefox, the self-described “independent browser” from Mozilla. Firefox says it is building an AI browsing diagnostic called AI Window that includes an AI adjunct and chatbot. The institution calls it an opt-in “intelligent and user-controlled space” that is presently being built “in the open” with idiosyncratic input. 

In September, the institution launched a “shake to summarize” feature successful Firefox that uses AI to make summaries of webpages that are unfastened connected your iPhone. Mozilla positions itself arsenic the respectful browsing institution that gives users the enactment to usage arsenic overmuch AI arsenic they want.

“While others are gathering AI experiences that support you locked successful a conversational loop, we spot a antithetic way — 1 wherever AI serves arsenic a trusted companion, enhancing your browsing acquisition and guiding you outward to the broader web,” Mozilla wrote connected its institution blog. 

AI Window volition beryllium 1 of 3 browsing experiences offered to Firefox users successful summation to the backstage and classical windows. In a post to the Mozilla Connect forum connected Thursday, the institution wrote that users volition beryllium capable to prime the AI exemplary they privation to usage successful AI Window, but offered fewer further details. Users funny successful updates astir the AI Window merchandise can articulation Mozilla’s waitlist.