Brave announced Ask Brave, a unified AI search interface that presents AI chat answers alongside links, videos, and product results within Brave Search. The rollout is available through Brave Search entry points.
Key Details
- Ask Brave combines chat responses with traditional search results in a single interface.
- The system uses Brave's Search API for grounding and reports 94.9% accuracy on the SimpleQA benchmark.
- Brave cites an index of more than 35 billion webpages informing responses.
- Deep Research mode issues queries and analyzes large sets of pages to handle follow-ups.
- Brave states AI Answers currently generates over 15 million responses daily.
- Privacy claims include no use of user questions for training, encrypted conversations, 24-hour auto-deletion after inactivity, and no IP address storage. For details, see the Privacy Policy.
- Access options:
- Enter queries with "??" when Brave Search is the default.
- Select the Ask button on search.brave.com.
- Use the Ask tab on results pages.
- Set the Ask interface as your homepage.
Background
Ask Brave builds on Brave Search's earlier AI features. The company launched Summarizer in 2023, later renamed Answer with AI, and now referred to as AI Answers. Brave reports that Brave Search handles more than 1.5 billion monthly queries.
Brave says Ask Brave is designed to reduce switching between chat tools and traditional search. The interface integrates videos, news articles, products, businesses, and shopping modules within the chat flow. The approach is search-driven responses augmented by large language models.
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