DuckDuckGo AI Chat Allows Anonymous Access to Chatbots

„DuckDuckGo AI Chat is an anonymous way to access popular AI chatbots – currently, Open AI’s GPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, and two open-source models (Meta Llama 3 and Mistral’s Mixtral 8x7B), with more to come. This optional feature is free to use within a daily limit, and can easily be switched off.“ (DuckDuckGo, 6 June 2024) This was reported by the DuckDuckGo blog on June 6, 2024. Initial tests have shown that the responses come at high speed. This is an excellent way of testing and comparing different language models one after the other. All this is possible with a high level of data protection: „Chats are private, anonymized by us, and are not used for any AI model training.“ (DuckDuckGo, 6 June 2024) It would be desirable for this service to be offered free of charge and without limitation. But that is still a long way off: DuckDuckGo is currently exploring the possibility of „a paid plan for access to higher daily usage limits and more advanced models“ (DuckDuckGo, 6 June 2024). You can try out the new tool at duck.ai or duckduckgo.com/chat.

Fig.: DuckDuckGo AI Chat has just started (Image: Ideogram)