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Brave has announced a new major update to its search engine – Brave Search that helps users find answers to whatever they are searching about online. In a blog post, the company said the search engine now “synthesizes information from multiple sources into a single, intelligible answer to almost any query.”
The new feature called “Answer with AI” displays answers to your queries in a clean and neatly arranged format to questions like “People who walked on the moon” and “List of directors for Batman movies.” Brave says it can also help summarise reviews and highlight the unique points of various locations like a restaurant.
It offers near-instant answers citing sources alongside traditional search results and works regardless of the browser and platform you are using and seems to be an upgrade to the search engine’s last year’s ‘Summarize’ feature.
While Answer with AI will automatically present the search results in a summarised format it can also be triggered manually for searches that do not fit into Brave’s predefined search parameters. Brave says the new feature uses a combination of large language models (LLMs) with Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B as primary models alongside custom large language models.
In the last few months, several reports have repeatedly said that AI-powered searches could negatively impact the internet. While Brave says that they are using AI to offer answers, it is aware that this approach might hurt publishers who are putting out quality content.
Other popular search engines like Google and Bing have already rolled out AI-powered answers, with Google’s Search Generative Experience currently available as an experimental feature in Google Labs. However, companies like Perplexity and You.com seem to be using AI as an alternative to traditional search queries.
