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Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature
People who use DuckDuckGo browser apps or extensions can check out DuckAssist in beta now.
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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo unveiled on Wednesday an optional artificial intelligence feature called DuckAssist. Users of DuckDuckGo's browser apps or extensions can access a beta version of the feature now, for free.
Unlike ChatGPT or Microsoft's Bing AI, DuckAssist isn't a chatbot, DuckDuckGo says. Instead, it's an addition to the search engine's existing Instant Answers feature. Instant Answers taps various online sources to give you a quick answer to your query without you having to click one of the links in the search results. Now DuckAssist can lend a hand, but it pulls from a smaller set of sources.
Enter a question into the DuckDuckGo search bar and DuckAssist scans Wikipedia, and occasionally Britannica, to generate an answer. DuckAssist uses technology from ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Anthropic to summarize the answer and make the response more conversational. When DuckAssist answers, it also links to the Wikipedia or Britannica article it pulled its answer from.
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