They support Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, HuggingChat, and Mistral.
This happened ages ago, didn’t it? Am I missing something new?
I only saw it now, maybe it happened before on a different version.
Yeah, it did. That feature has been there at least since when Mozilla enabled “Firefox labs” section in settings by default a few months ago, and maybe even earlier than that
TIL a month is an age.
Well, this month in particular…
True. ❤️
Wow, great job Firefox. Thanks.
If I wanted unreliable bullshit like AI, I’d use Chrome.
I will say, the Le Chat provider is pretty decent. You really can use it more natural language. “Rewrite it with a better rhyme scheme” “remove the last line” and it just got it.
Why no local option though? Why no anonmysing option?
Edit: There is a right click option which does make this officially actually useful for me now (summarize this!).
Other models do have RAG options and Mist real supports making agents with specified documentation too to at least fine tune too (not as good as full grounding though IMHO)
oh good. hurray.
Didn’t want it in Opera, don’t want it in Firefox. I mean they can keep trying and I’ll just keep on ignoring this shit :/
hopefully, it’ll be possible to opt out somehow.
as the screenshot shows, it is opt-in
Are any of these open source or trustworthy?
probably not
There are no open source ai models, even if they tell you that they are. HuggingFace is the closest thing to as something like open source where you can download ai models to run locally without internet connection. There are applications for that. In Firefox the HuggingChat uses models from HuggingFace, but I think it is running them on a server and does not download from?
The reason why they are not open source is, because we don’t know exactly on what data they are trained on. We cannot rebuild them on our own. And for trustworthy, I assume you are talking about the integration and the software using the models, right? At least it is implemented by Mozilla, so there is (to me) some sort of trust involved. Yes, even after all the bullshit I trust Mozilla.
It’s “open weights” if they are publishing the model file but nothing about its creation. There’s some hypothetical security concerns with training it to give very specific outputs for certain very specific inputs but I feel like that’s one of those kind of far fetched worries especially if you want to use it for chat or summarization and the comparison is getting AI output from a server API. Local is still way better.
I think Mistral is model-available (ie I’m not sure if they release training data/code but they do release model shape and weights), huggingchat definitely is open source and model-available
Sorry but HuggingChat / HuggingFace and all models on it are not open source(Edit: Oh you meant the UI HuggingChat is Open Source. Yeah sorry, I was focused on the models. And there is no Open Source model from my understanding.) -> https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition Off course opensource.org is not the only authority on what the word opensource means, but its not a bad start.
For a second I thought it said “experimental failure”. Would be more accurate, I think.
Sigh. I’m glad to have switched to LibreWolf.
I switched a while back before all the Ai and “privacy preserving” telemetry stuff.
Every update note I see for Firefox now just reinforces my decision.
Thanks for nothing, Mozilla.
They should raise the ceo’s pay some more to celebrate.
And fire a few employees just cause.
Unpopular opinion, I think they’re doing it right as well as it can be at least. It’s completely optional and doesn’t seem to be intrusive.
yeah its not google chrome level which i’m thankful about.
I’m way more pissed about restarting my PC after an update and having Copilot installed without my permission.
I agree
If they do it in a privacy-preseeving way, this could help them get back market share which will generally benefit an open internet.
Why would anybody want to have AI in their browser? It’s a fucking browser.
Because browsers are the most useful tool on most computers. Ordinary People go on google/ask chatgpt for mundane questions. If their browser can do that they need 1 app less and it will be more convenient which is what especially non-tech savy people care about.
I really wish there was another way.
But it’s gonna be very difficult when you’ve got Google and OpenAI up there.
It’s an open source project, you can keep it in a box and people are able to check it.
Wasn’t this there for a while, or just me.
It is since version 128 I think
I think 130
And I still can’t convince it to stop caching the images because it does not follows the RFC.
Could this replace Perplexity for (assisted free) online search?
