DuckAssist
DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, launched a beta version of an AI assistant to enhance it search earlier this month, DuckAssist. The free tool is powered by ChatGPT and Anthropic’s AI and scrapes the information in its answers largely from Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica. You can download it as an extension of DuckDuckGo’s browser.
Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, wrote in a blog post, “DuckAssist is a new type of Instant Answer in our search results, just like News, Maps, Weather, and many others we already have. We designed DuckAssist to be fully integrated into DuckDuckGo Private Search, mirroring the look and feel of our traditional search results, so while the AI-generated content is new, we hope using DuckAssist feels second nature.”
