Brave is rolling out its AI assistant, Leo, to all of its Android users. Leo enables users to be able to ask questions and translate pages, summarize pages, create content, and much more. The software will be made accessible on the Android devices a few months after it first rolled out Leo for desktop. According to Brave, Leo will be available on iOS within weeks.

Leo can summarize web pages and videos in real time or answer questions on content; it can produce long-form written pieces; translate and rewrite pages; generate transcriptions from videos or audio content; and even write code. Now, Brave is hoping that by providing users with the bulk of these service through Leo, fewer will feel a need to reach out to ChatGPT or other popular LLMs for those jobs and questions.

You can use Leo to do things like planning a recipe for dinner, getting travel tips, comparing products before you go out to buy, and summarizing a long webpage you don't have time for in its entirety.

Leo includes access to Mixtral 8x7B, Anthropic's Claude Instant, and Meta's Llama 2 13B. Brave made Mixtral 8x7B the default LLM for Leo on desktop and Android but is letting users choose among other options, or upgrade to Leo Premium for higher rate limits for $14.99 a month. One subscription covers up to five devices across Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Brave says its chats with Leo are private, that it does not record any chats or use them in model training. All requests go through proxied anonymisation servers and Leo's responses are discarded once generated. In addition, users do not need a Brave account to make use of Leo. If you do sign up, Brave says all subscriptions are validated by unlinkable tokens, so the company can't know about your activity or your email.

To get going with Leo on Android, you need to open the browser, begin typing in the address bar and click "Ask Leo." If you want the on-page chat experience, you have to select the three dot menu and then tap "Leo."

Users of the Android version have to download version 1.63 if they are to access Leo. Meanwhile, Android users may not see Brave Leo yet because this will be rolled out in phases over the next couple of days.

Brave isn't the first browser firm to release an AI assistant lately, but Opera unveiled an AI assistant called Aria last year. Open-sourced by AI, it's open-source and has been built in collaboration with Open AI, so you can ask it questions and receive its responses in a chatbot-like interface.