February 14, 2024 - Ask Leo to summarize a webpage, doc, or PDF. Or ask almost any question in general, and get answers, summaries, clarifications, related information, and other viewpoints. Brave Leo can also create content like articles, essays, and emails.

Want to use a specific AI model or service provider? Leo's BYOM feature lets you: Connect to your own local or remote models · Use third-party APIs · Maintain full control over your AI interactions · Read more about BYOM in our Guide: How do I use the Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) with Brave Leo?

June 13, 2024 - Leo—Brave’s in-browser AI assistant—is now even more useful, thanks to its integration with Brave Search. With today’s release, Leo can incorporate search-augmented responses into its answers, powered by the Brave Search API.

June 30, 2025 - Search: Like many AI products on the market today, Leo uses the Brave Search API to incorporate real-time Brave Search results and provide more accurate, up-to-date information. It also includes citations with links to sources used to inform ...

August 22, 2024 - API Key: third party frameworks may require authentication credentials, such as an API key or an access token. These will be added to the request header. Click Add model; your local model should now appear in the Leo model menu.

Your BYOM page should look something like this (where [Your API key here] is your personal API key): Your should now be able to see and select your ChatGPT model in brave://settings/leo-ai:

Open Brave Settings · Navigate to Leo settings · Scroll to Bring your own model section · Click Add new model · Fill in the required fields: Label: Name that will appear in the model selection menu · Model request name: The model identifier (e.g., "deepseek-r1") Server endpoint: Your local endpoint (for Ollama, use http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions) API Key: Leave blank if not required by your framework ·

Also note that Leo—like all of our AI features—is completely optional, so Brave users can easily stick to a non-AI browsing experience. Analyze webpages, PDFs, images, Google Docs and Sheets, and more ... This table examines default configurations on individual, non-enterprise accounts/plans. ... Power your AI with the world’s largest Web search API...

Leo uses the Brave Search API to collect relevant information. Leo then adds the search results to the user’s prompt and sends them together to Leo's language model.

June 14, 2024 - Privacy-focused search engine company Brave is integrating its Brave Search API into its Leo chatbot, built into its browser.

Here’s how to connect Brave Leo to Requesty, so you can start using any model in the world right in your browser: ... Visit app.requesty.ai/router and sign up or log in. In the dashboard, create / copy your API key.

June 30, 2025 - For users who want ultimate control, Leo’s Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) capability lets you connect your own AI models—whether running locally on your device or hosted remotely. You can use frameworks like Ollama to run models directly on your device and connect them to Leo, keeping all data private. If you wish to use third-party APIs like OpenAI’s GPT-4, BYOM connects to them using your own key.

September 20, 2023 - The first step to opening this ... for Brave to offer to its full user base. With more than 60 million users worldwide, the cost of running Leo as-is on our general release channel would be prohibitive without a paid option. For this reason, we’ll soon be offering a premium version of Leo. Alongside the free version of this feature, the premium version will cover the costs of hosting our premium models, and for paying the API access for ...

March 8, 2025 - 1. Download and install Brave browser. Ensure that you are using Version 1.76.52 or greater to utilize the Leo AI functionality. 2. Click the "Leo AI" icon on the top right to access Leo, and then the gear icon on the bottom right to access the settings menu. 3. Click the "Leo" tab on the left side, and then scroll down to the "Bring your own model" section. 4. Grab your API key from Venice.ai (follow instructions in our docs).

Here's a quick example of how to use "leo_API" to interact with Brave's Leo AI: Sync, from leo_API import Leo # Initialize the Leo instance leo = Leo() # Ask to Leo and get a response response = leo.ask('What is the weather like today?') print("Leo:", response.completion) Async, import asyncio from leo_API import AsyncLeo async def main(): # Initialize the Leo instance leo = AsyncLeo() # Ask to Leo and get a response response = await leo.ask('What is the weather like today?') print("Leo:", response.completion) # Close Session await leo.close() asyncio.run(main())

June 30, 2024 - I’ve absolutely loved using Leo in the Brave browser, but I since I don’t use Brave as my primary browser, I find it to be annoying to need to open Brave, specifically to use Leo. I was wondering if there were plans to o…

November 8, 2023 - [00:00:24] and search engine, now powering AI with the Brave Search API. You’re listening to a new episode of The Brave Technologist, and this one features Brian Bondi, who co founded Brave Software with Brennan Eich in 2015, and now serves as the Chief Technology Officer and member of the board at Brave. We’re really excited to share this episode with you as we covered a lot of ground. [00:00:43] Today we discuss some of the backstory behind Brave, the Brave Leo AI project, the roadmap, some of the differences between having AI outside of the browser versus having AI directly in the browser, how Brave’s already been using AI in different ways aside from the Leo [00:01:00] project.

Newer models remain accessible via V1 API as of writing. Brave has introduced V2 API https://ai-chat.bsg.brave.com/v2/complete for Mistrial 8x7B model, and introduced HTTP Message Signatures for authentication.

September 19, 2024 - Brave Leo is an innovative tool designed to enhance your browsing experience by integrating AI capabilities directly into the Brave browser. This tool leverages the power of artificial intelligence to provide users with smarter, faster, and ...