Brave, a privacy-focused browser with built-in security capabilities, has introduced a new feature called Ask Brave, designed to merge AI chat and traditional search into a unified interface. Starting today, users of Brave Browser can try it out directly on the Brave Search homepage or within the search results page.
The idea behind Ask Brave is straightforward: instead of requiring people to bounce between a standard search engine and a separate AI chatbot, Brave now combines both in one place. You can type in a simple search query and get links, videos, or products, or you can ask more detailed questions and get a longer, chat-like answer with follow-ups.
The responses aren’t pulled out of thin air either—Brave ensures they’re grounded in actual web results, reducing the risk of irrelevant or “hallucinated” answers.
Ask Brave builds on Brave’s earlier AI Answers feature, which launched back in 2023 and, according to the company, now serves more than 15 million responses a day. Unlike those shorter summaries, however, Ask Brave is meant for longer answers, deeper context, and interactive chat.
It also introduces Deep Research, which utilizes multiple rounds of Brave’s search engine to delve into thousands of pages and provide a more comprehensive view when quick summaries are insufficient.
Since adding AI to a browser that prides itself on security is bound to raise questions, the company says that chats are encrypted, expire automatically after 24 hours of inactivity, and aren’t used for AI training. No IP addresses are stored either, keeping the experience in line with the browser’s long-standing focus on user control.
Users can access Ask Brave in a few ways: by clicking the new “Ask” button on Brave Search, tapping the Ask tab in the results page, or even just adding “??” at the end of a query. The feature is free and works on any browser or platform, not just inside Brave itself.
For more information, see the announcement on Brave’s blog.
Image credits: Brave
How do I turn everything AI off from Brave search or Brave browser? AI is useless to me. Answers are either biased or simply wrong, and my personal inquiries yield much better results. I would like to avoid AI entirely when I use Brave or Brave search.
The world is obsessed with Artificial Intelligence and robotics! The world should channel its resources to humanitarian projects to relieve the suffering of others instead of the insane path toward destruction that world governments are on?
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
– Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) – World renowned English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author who suffered with ALS from age 21.
“I, Robot” (2004)
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I have been using brave on desktop with duckduckgo since I had issues with bot checks. I may try it again at some point but if i get bot checks again I will be switching back to duckduckgo on brave since I’m not going to disable vpn. I do like brave browser on desktop and I do use the default ad blocker with ublock origin that is also built in brave://settings/extensions/v2 without issues and the only reason I do is because some popup ads where not being blocked. On android I do not use brave anymore since it had issues pausing before loading sometimes which was annoying. I currently use firefox and duckduckgo browser which I am liking even more lately since if you enable the built in video player it blocks youtube ads in duckduckgo browser on android.