Proton launches Lumo, an IA chatbot wanting to be respectful of privacy

After password managers, online storage or wallet at Crypto, Proton continues to diversify and has just launched Lumo, a chatgpt chatbot. Meanwhile, As usual. Consequently, the company highlights the confidentiality of user data, saying that conversations are not reused and that even it cannot access the request history.

Lumo is based on open source models and runs on European servers. However, The service adapts to the user profile. its requests, alternating between Nemo (Mistral), Openhands 32B (NVIDIA), OLMO 2 32B (Allen Institute for AI) and Mistral Small 3 (Mistral). Everything is encrypted, which means that discussions cannot be read by a third party. There are no advertisements and the service has been accessible for free from a browser. An iOS app has also been launched.

As with competition, a “more” version causes some proton launches lumo, ia chatbot barriers to blow. Paying € 13 per month (or € 120 per year) allows you to chat without limits. in addition to being able to send larger files. History is enriched with research, while the user has access to more advanced models.

I played a little with it and the service seemed effective for simple requests. The bot has some limitations and cannot, for example, generate images. We will wait to see the first feedback from large users to get an idea. Surprisingly, the paid formula is not included in the Proton Unlimited subscription which lists the various Proton services. It will therefore be necessary to pay a second time to unlock all the possibilities of the chatbot.