Proton's New AI Assistant Lumo Offers Encrypted Chat Alternative

Proton contiguous launched Lumo, an AI adjunct that promises to support your conversations wholly private. Best known for its encrypted Mail and VPN services, the Swiss institution says it built Lumo arsenic an alternate to mainstream AI tools that typically capitalize connected users' information by utilizing it to bid their ample connection models (LLMs).


Lumo tin beryllium utilized conscionable similar different AI chatbots (Open AI's ChatGPT oregon Google Gemini, for example) truthful it tin bash things similar analyse documents, rewrite emails, and make code. Proton says Lumo doesn't support chat logs connected its servers, and everything stays encrypted connected your instrumentality utilizing the aforesaid exertion that protects the company's different services, truthful nary 1 other tin work your conversations – including Proton itself.

The work runs connected open-source AI models similar Mistral's Nemo and Nvidia's OpenHands 32B. The models run from European information centers that Proton says it controls directly. Users' questions and responses don't get fed backmost into the strategy to bid aboriginal versions, truthful there's nary hazard of your backstage accusation showing up successful idiosyncratic else's chat.

Lumo includes a "Ghost mode" that makes your existent speech vanish everlastingly erstwhile you adjacent it, portion the assistant's web hunt diagnostic (if you crook it on) uses privacy-friendly hunt engines. You tin besides nexus Proton Drive files to Lumo and everything stays encrypted.

Lumo is escaped to usage astatine Lumo.proton.me and does not necessitate a Proton relationship erstwhile accessed. However, if you person a Proton account, your chat past tin beryllium saved utilizing the company's "zero-access" encryption crossed each your devices. There are besides mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

For powerfulness users, Lumo Plus costs $12.99 per period and removes limits connected chats and record uploads. Announcing the chatbot, Proton CEO Andy Yen said the institution built Lumo due to the fact that AI shouldn't go the world's astir almighty surveillance tool. "For this reason, we judge it is indispensable to supply an alternate that protects privateness and serves users arsenic opposed to exploiting them."

Lumo by Proton is disposable to download from the App Store. [Direct Link]
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