On Wednesday, Brave announced that it's bringing its AI assistant, Leo, to the iPhone and iPad user base. The AI assistant will allow users to ask questions, summarize pages, create content and do much more. It follows the AI assistant launch on Android and desktop.

Leo, the new iOS release, brings with voice-to-text capabilities, which are unavailable on Android versions of AI assistant. That said, people can utter things out loud, convert it into text, thereby relieving themselves of having to type out their questions or queries. According to Brave, this added capability makes interaction with the AI somewhat easier.

Not only that, but Leo can summarize pages or videos, answer questions regarding the content it reads, generate long-form written reports, translate or rewrite pages, create transcriptions of video or audio content, and even write code. By allowing users access to a built-in AI assistant, Brave hopes users won't resort to ChatGPT or other services like it.

Leo lets the user access Mixtral 8x7B, Anthropic's Claude Instant and Meta's Llama 2 13B. LLM Mixtral 8x7B is the default LLM, but users can toggle another or upgrade to Leo Premium with a higher rate limit for $14.99 per month.

Brave isn't the first browser company to launch an AI assistant: Opera launched an AI assistant called Aria last year. Product was being built in collaboration with OpenAI, and one has a chatbot-like interface that allows people asking questions and receiving instant answers.

Brave Leo for iOS is now available to all iOS users who have updated to version 1.63. Leo can be accessed from the browser by starting typing in the address bar, then tapping "Ask Leo." The Leo feature is opt-in; however, users may disable it through the app's settings.
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