Orbit by Mozilla
Orbit by Mozilla
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Orbit by Mozilla
New Mozilla AI project. Put "trust" and "privacy" in the title and subtile but doesn't support locally hosted model.
Exists as an add-on today. Model is Mistral 7B hosted by Mozilla in GCP. Claims won't save data long term. Promises won't use personal information to train models and not share queries with Mistral or any other services.
Am I going to use it? No. Not without local model supported.
Note: the mobile version of the page is broken (lack of many content). Best to view the desktop version for complete details.
We discussed this briefly a few days ago. No one understands why Mozilla likes to waste their time and money on random sideprojects that nobody likes or asked for... Instead of something useful, or the things lots of people ask them to do.
And summarization is among the worst things you can do with LLMs. I'm not against AI, but they're really not good at this specific thing. I'm not sure if people will use it anyways, but I think this project is a waste of resources.
Literally every single non tech person I know uses these kind of tools. Everyone who searches google gets an AI summary of the results. Microsoft builds this into all their products.
Having an extension that users can CHOOSE to install to do content summaries is a good thing. Either Mozilla does it or OpenAI, Google, Apple, Microsoft do it. Personally id rather people be using a tool made by Mozilla.
its not like they arent focusing on their browser they just released a new address bar packed full of changes and feature to their beta branch.
Thank you. At least someone lives in the real world.
Whether Lemmy users like it or not, this is becoming an expected feature now, and Firefox shouldn't be exclusively chasing people on Lemmy who already use Firefox.
And I'd rather have it be implemented in a way that's pretty private, with the option of tying in a locally installed LLM (although it's a bit convoluted to do right now by the looks of it), and the entire thing be an optional extension, than it forced upon me.
I feel like Mozilla are in a difficult position. They're reliant on Google to exist, it seems. When they try to do something else to make an alternate revenue stream everyone says to stick to the thing they do that nobody in the world pays for.
I genuinely don't know what people expect from Mozilla.
People simultaneously want them to give up their search engine payments, but also get angry at them for trying to make revenue any other way.
Web engine development costs hundreds of millions per year. It's a phenomenally complex and expensive endeavour, with no obvious path to revenue unless you hoover up user data, which Mozilla doesn't want to do.
I recently started donating to Mozilla. They have been delivering a good product for a very long time, the least I can do is pay for it.