what you need to know
- Brave, best known for its Chromium-based web browser, now has its own AI tools built into its search engine.
- Summarizer, powered by Brave AI, will provide an intelligent summary of information at the top of the search based on the question asked.
- It is enabled by default on desktop and mobile, but users can opt out in the settings.
Bing Chat has been taking up a lot of the AI discussion lately, but naturally other competing products are starting to get involved as well. Brave, best known for its Chromium-based web browser, has its own search engine and quietly slipped in a new AI-powered tool called Summarizer.
It does exactly what its name suggests. Using Brave AI, Summarizer will display a concise summary of information based on your input.
“The Summarizer provides concise, direct answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, in response to user input, based solely on web search results. Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is Prone to making unsubstantiated claims, we train our Large Language Models (LLMs) to process multiple sources of information present on the Web. This produces a more concise and accurate response, expressed in consistent language.”
It’s a bit more basic in its implementation than Bing Chat AI, but it seems to work. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and for the most part the results have been pretty good. However, because you are using web results, if you ask about people, you can easily get multiple different answers chained like in the image above. At least he got the good Daniel Rubino there first. However, he couldn’t find anything on Jez Corden, unlike Bing Chat.
But it also depends on being able to find the right answers. Brave Search has been getting better and better since its inception, but in my experience it still lags behind Google and Bing substantially at times. One example is that I asked when is the longest day of the year and Summarizer could only get a result for 2022.
But if you’re using Brave, it’s definitely a nice addition. I’ve been using it in the Brave browser for some time, but often find that the best results don’t deliver the response I really want. Summarizer has certainly been more helpful in that regard, but there are still plenty of topics for which it doesn’t seem to be able to produce answers.
Summarizer is enabled by default, but users can opt out in the settings if they prefer not to use it. It’s obviously soon and it’s sure to get better and better, but if you want to try it yourself, just hit search.brave.com in your browser.
