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DuckDuckGo adds reasoning models to its privacy-focused chatbot hub

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Why This Matters

DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai platform now features advanced reasoning models like GPT-5 mini and GPT-5.2, enhancing privacy-focused AI interactions for users. These updates improve the platform's capabilities while maintaining strong privacy protections, emphasizing the importance of secure AI tools in the industry. This development signals a shift towards more powerful, privacy-conscious AI solutions accessible to a broader audience.

Key Takeaways

Duck.ai now includes more powerful reasoning models, including GPT 5 mini for free users and GPT 5.2 for subscribers. Here are the details.

If you’re not familiar with Duck.ai, this is DuckDuckGo’s chatbot platform that gives access to private conversations from models by Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and OpenAI.

In recent months, Duck.ai has rolled out features such as voice chats, image generation, image editing, and more.

As DuckDuckGo explains it, Duck.ai anonymizes chats by default, and none of the conversations are used to train AI models:

“All metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is completely removed before prompting the model provider. This means chats to Anthropic, OpenAI, and together.ai (which hosts Meta Llama and Mixtral on their servers) appear as though they are coming from DuckDuckGo rather than individual users. This also means if you submit personal information in your chats, no one, including DuckDuckGo and the model providers, can tell whether it was you personally submitting the prompts or someone else.”

Today, Duck.ai is adding more powerful reasoning models, including GPT-5 mini for free users, and GPT-5.2 for subscribers.

The company says users can toggle reasoning mode on or off in GPT-5.2, since not every interaction requires the model to take extra “thinking” steps before answering a prompt.

As always, DuckDuckGo reminds users that these AI tools are optional and not tied to its traditional search engine platform.

To learn more about today’s announcement, follow this link.

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