DuckDuckGo's Free AI Tools Are Now Out of Beta

On Thursday, DuckDuckGo, the company behind the privacy-focused search engine, announced its AI features were out of beta, with a few upgrades. These features are optional so you don't have to use them if you don't want to, and they're also free to use. One of those features grants access to multiple AI chatbots through Duck.ai. This feature was originally called DuckDuckGo AI Chat when it launched in beta in 2024, and it gave you access to popular chatbots like OpenAI's GPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku and Meta Llama 3. In a blog post by CEO and founder Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo says it has implemented upgraded models of these popular chatbots into Duck.ai, which now gives you access to OpenAI's GPT-4o mini and o3-mini models, Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku and the open-source models Meta Llama 3.3 and Mistral Small 3. Duck.ai also saves chats locally on your device in its Recent Chats section so you can come back to a chat later and pick up where you left off. DuckDuckGo ... Read full article.