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'Users no longer need to choose between powerful AI capabilities and meaningful privacy protections': Proton makes its Lumo privacy-first ChatGPT alternative a lot more powerful

Lumo 2.0 release rebuilds Proton's privacy-first assistant with reasoning modes, image generation/recognition, cited live web search, and persistent memory
The privacy stack mixes cryptography and policy: zero-access encryption protects stored chats and images, while inference-time protection relies on Proton's no-logs/no-training promises that have held in the past
Proton's Lumo 2.0 Lite and Lumo 2.0 Max score 127% and 240% higher than Lumo 1.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, making them close in on last-generation frontier AI models

Proton has revealed Lumo 2.0, its updated AI alternative to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, focusing on privacy first and foremost, a distinctly different approach from most of its competition.

The new update is not only smarter than its predecessor at what it does, but also brings a host of new capabilities: reasoning modes, image generation and recognition, live web search with citations, persistent memory, and customizable assistants.

Lumo 2.0 looks to do...

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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families. OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults across its products. The role calls for

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AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

AI + ML OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools To cater to the broadest possible market, OpenAI and Anthropic build ever-larger models capable of making a brute-force attempt to tackle almost any task. These models are the Swiss Army Knives

Engadget Review Recap: Steam Machine, Samsung Music Studio 7, Oura Ring 5 And More

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White House taps the guy who keeps crying ‘aliens’ to run UFO group

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Engadget Review Recap: Steam Machine, Samsung Music Studio 7, Oura Ring 5 And More