GoKawiilToday, Proton is introducing Lumo 2.0, in what the company says is the largest upgrade to its privacy-first AI assistant to date. Here are the details.
Proton Lumo 2.0 now available
Last July, Proton announced Lumo, a privacy-focused AI assistant built around five core principles: no logs, zero-access encryption, no data sharing, no use of conversations for AI training, and open-source language models.
Today, the company best known for its encrypted email service, Proton Mail, announced Lumo 2.0, which builds on that foundation to deliver improved performance and new capabilities.
Here’s what’s new with Lumo 2.0:
Image recognition and generation: New multimodal capabilities, allowing users to analyze, edit, and generate images all in the same conversation, protected by zero-access encryption
New multimodal capabilities, allowing users to analyze, edit, and generate images all in the same conversation, protected by zero-access encryption Deeper context with memory: User-controlled memory, encrypted Projects, and Custom Lumos for more personalized and productive AI workflows
User-controlled memory, encrypted Projects, and Custom Lumos for more personalized and productive AI workflows Powerful new web search capabilities: Enhanced web search with live results and source citations, providing more accurate, transparent, and up-to-date answers
Proton says that while more than 10 million people have adopted Lumo “as a private alternative to other leading AI platforms,” Lumo 2.0 is also aimed at businesses looking to use advanced AI without exposing sensitive company data:
Lumo for Business is built for organisations that can’t afford those risks. Every conversation is zero-access encrypted, never logged, and never used to train future models. Administrative tools let them manage their team’s access, and the company’s data stays on independent European infrastructure meaning access to Lumo cannot be subject to US Executive Orders and user data is not subject to American data collection requests.
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