Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Proton, the privacy-focused productivity app company, released a nationalist AI chatbot, Lumo, past year. On Tuesday, the chatbot received an upgrade.

Lumo 2.0 gives the chatbot a assortment of newfound powers including representation designation and representation procreation capabilities. Users tin present upload pictures into Lumo, past usage the chatbot to analyse oregon edit them. Similar to different LLMs, Lumo tin besides make imagery based connected a user’s prompt.

2.0 besides expands Lumo’s capabilities for Projects — the widget that allows users to upload documents and behaviour enactment via Proton’s different products similar email, unreality storage. Projects present travel with user-controlled persistent memory, which is simply a relation that allows Lumo to callback a user’s preferences crossed assorted conversational sessions.

Additionally, the institution says Lumo’s update makes it importantly much almighty than its erstwhile version. The 2.0 mentation responds to astir queries up to 76 percent faster than its erstwhile iteration, the institution says. The chatbot besides comes with a caller “thinking mode” for much analyzable problems oregon questions.

“Lumo 2.0 has been re-engineered from the crushed up and the instauration of reasoning mode gives it almighty caller capabilities,” said Andy Yen, Founder and CEO astatine Proton. “Lumo 2.0 demonstrates that users nary longer request to take betwixt almighty AI capabilities and meaningful privateness protections.”

The nationalist mentation of Lumo appears astir equivalent to different large chatbots successful presumption of usefulness. It answers questions successful a akin format arsenic Gemini and ChatGPT, with astir the aforesaid level of item and context.

Yet, Proton distinguishes Lumo from different chatbot providers with its privateness protections. It uses what it calls zero-access encryption architecture, which encrypts users information successful transit and astatine rest, lone allowing entree to the user. The institution besides claims that nary server-side logging of sessions is retained, truthful cipher astatine Proton tin spot the contents of conversations. Proton besides promises to ne'er usage lawsuit information for AI grooming oregon stock it with third-parties.

Lumo 2.0 is disposable immediately. In summation to the escaped nationalist version, Proton offers paid tiers (Plus and Professional) that springiness those users importantly much entree and resources.