They support Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, HuggingChat, and Mistral.
The chat isn’t the point, it’s needed as interface for storing your logins to summarization features
When internet is written by ai, you do need a tldr
I wish I had telemetry on such features.
I really doubt a significant number of people use AI chatbots often enough that having it in a dedicated sidebar is worth it.
That was there before 133, don’t remember the exact release that added it.
They better not decide to enable it by default.
it’s not enabled by default … it’s opt out by default
if third-party accounts are needed, it’ll have to stay that way.
as someone who’s never dabbled with ai bots, what does this feature do? is it only to query for information like a web search?
It just adds ChatGPT or similar to your sidebar. Chatbots can do a lot of things, they are mostly good for information research and technical help, although they have serious flaws like hallucinating false information sometimes
good question
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot
Note that you need an account to use one of these supported systems. HuggingChat allows for a few connections as a gues before cutting the access; basically a trial version, so you have to create an account.
Are any of these open source or trustworthy?
I think Mistral is model-available (ie I’m not sure if they release training data/code but they do release model shape and weights), huggingchat definitely is open source and model-available
probably not