14 hours Ago By Paul Thurrott
Building on the Answer with AI feature it added back in April, Brave today announced a new Chat mode for Brave Search that lets you ask follow-up questions to queries. “Starting today, when a query is recognized as a question, Brave Search provides a summary with a chat bar,” . “Engaging with this chat bar opens a chat experience, allowing users to explore the topic in more depth.
” Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! This new Chat mode is powered by open and internal LLMs (large language models), Brave says, plus Brave Search results, reducing the chance of hallucinations. It builds on a previous feature, , which delivers Big Tech-free generative AI-based answers to questions at the top of the search results page.
According to Brave, this experience now generates over 11 million answers daily. And now users can expand on that initial answer with follow-up questions: You’ll see an “Ask a follow-up question” chat box appear at the end of the AI answer so you can keep going. To test this, I asked Brave Search, “How many Star Wars movies are there?” Answer with AI responded that there were 12 canonical Star Wars movies*, with several more in development.
So I asked, “when is the next movie coming out?” and it replied that has a May 22, 2026 release date. As with everything Brave does, Brave Search, Answer with AI, and the new Chat mode all emphasize user privacy, with no profiling or stored search history. (The results note that, “This chat is temporary and will not be saved.
”) “These conversations are ephemeral, meaning they’re not persisted or stored,” the company explains. “Your conversations with Answer with AI remain safe and private.” Brave Search, Answer with AI, and Chat mode are free.
If you’re using Brave and haven’t changed the default search engine, you can start a search directly from the address bar. Otherwise, you can and try it that way. * This is incorrect, there are 11.
It counted (2022), a television series, as a movie for some reason. As it says, “AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
” But Wikipedia also says there are 12, with the 12th being a quickie theatrical release of some episodes as a movie of sorts. Eh. Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books.
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