Lumo; Proton Announces Its Privacy AI-Assistant

I’ve been using Proton products for the past year or so, and I cannot fathom why I didn’t start sooner. But one area that Proton hadn’t reached into was AI. That is now changed, as the company has just announced, Lumo. Lumo is Proton’s AI assistant that the company claims respects your privacy. Unlike Google, Meta, Apple, ChatGPT, and others. Here’s what the press release had to say about Lumo.

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Lumo by Proton

AI is already transforming society in big and small ways. But Big Tech companies aren’t using it to help people—they’re using it to accelerate their surveillance capitalism business model while leaving our data vulnerable to hackers or governments. And they’re doing it without our consent, integrating AI into our lives to build intimate profiles about us whether we like it or not.

There is an urgent need for a private and ethical AI alternative. That’s why we built Lumo, the first AI assistant that respects your privacy.

• Lumo doesn’t keep any logs of your activity
• Zero-access encryption means nobody but you can see your saved chats
• Lumo is based in Europe, protected by strong privacy laws
• Your information cannot be shared with anyone or used to train AI
• Lumo is open source, so you can verify that it’s private

Lumo is AI where you can safely ask anything because it’s truly confidential.

Chat

As a member of the Proton community, you have instant access to all the features of Lumo Free, including multiple queries per day, help with analyzing individual small files, and the ability to search the web for new or recent information. When signed in to your Proton Account, you can save some of your favorite chats in a history only you can access. For chats you don’t want saved at all, simply use Ghost mode.

Lumo Plus

Want more? Upgrade to Lumo Plus to chat as much as you want, see your entire chat history, favorite all your important chats, and analyze multiple large files at once. Lumo Plus is the most powerful version of Lumo with advanced reasoning and coding capabilities. Because Lumo will always be ad-free and powered by our community, subscriptions enable us to cover the operational expenses of AI and ensure we can continue to put your privacy first.

Faster and Smarter

Since launching Lumo, we’ve already released a more powerful update, Lumo 1.1—it gives you even faster responses, advanced reasoning, superior coding and web search capabilities, and more nuanced answers to complex questions. Even more advanced versions are coming soon, with new functionalities requested by the community.

Learn More

You can check out the Proton website for more information on this new AI and try it out for yourself at the link below.

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