Lumo, Proton's privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade
Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities. Proton , the privacy-focused productivity app company, released a public AI chatbot, Lumo, last year. On Tuesday, the chatbot received an upgrade.
Key Takeaways
- Lumo 2.0 gives the chatbot a variety of newfound powers, including image recognition and image generation capabilities.
Users can now upload pictures into Lumo, then use the chatbot to analyze or edit them.
- Additionally, the company says Lumo's update makes it significantly more powerful than its previous version.
The 2.0 version responds to most queries up to 76% faster than its previous iteration, the company says.
- The public version of Lumo appears roughly equivalent to other major chatbots in terms of usefulness.
It answers questions in a similar format as Gemini and ChatGPT, with approximately the same level of detail and context.
- Proton also promises to never use customer data for AI training or share it with third-parties.
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Stats & Key Facts
- #The 2.0 version responds to most queries up to 76% faster than its previous iteration, the company says.
Lumo 2.0 gives the chatbot a variety of newfound powers, including image recognition and image generation capabilities. Users can now upload pictures into Lumo, then use the chatbot to analyze or edit them. Similar to other LLMs, Lumo can also generate imagery based on a user's prompt.
Version 2.0 also expands Lumo's capabilities for Projects - the widget that allows users to upload documents and conduct work via Proton's other products like email and cloud storage. Projects now come with user-controlled persistent memory, which is a function that allows Lumo to recall a user's preferences across various conversational sessions. Additionally, the company says Lumo's update makes it significantly more powerful than its previous version.
The 2.0 version responds to most queries up to 76% faster than its previous iteration, the company says. The chatbot also comes with a new "thinking mode" for more complex problems or questions. "Lumo 2.0 has been re-engineered from the ground up and the introduction of thinking mode gives it powerful new capabilities," said Andy Yen, founder and CEO at Proton.
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