DuckAssist searches also won’t be used to train their models.ĭuckDuckGo users can expect more AI-enhanced features to arrive in the future. For those concerned about privacy, DuckDuckGo notes no login is necessary to use DuckAssist and the company won’t share any of your personal information with OpenAI and Anthropic. The company says it wants to collect feedback before expanding availability in the coming weeks and allowing DuckAssist's model to pull on additional sources. With today’s announcement, you will only see DuckAssist answers appear when using the DuckDuckGo app or browser extension. If you see a magic wand icon, it means Duck Assist can summarize information for you.Īdditionally, the feature won’t be part of the entire DuckDuckGo experience right away. You won’t see “DuckAssist” with each and every search you conduct, but when it does appear, the tool will pull from Wikipedia (as well as Encyclopedia Britannica in some instances) to provide a natural language response to your questions.ĭuckDuckGo is limiting DuckAssist’s sourcing to reduce the likelihood of the feature’s machine-learning model “ hallucinating” or, in other words, providing you with the wrong information. Instead, DuckDuckGo is partnering with OpenAI and Anthropic to enhance its existing Instant Answer feature. But the company isn’t starting with a chatbot. Following the lead of Microsoft and Google, DuckDuckGo is about to dip its toes in generative AI.

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