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Proton Enhances Lumo 2.0: A Privacy-Focused AI Chatbot with New Capabilities

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Proton, a privacy-focused productivity app company, has launched an upgrade to their AI chatbot, Lumo 2.0. This version brings new capabilities, making it a compelling tool for users seeking advanced AI features without sacrificing privacy.

  • New Features: Lumo 2.0 introduces image recognition and generation, allowing users to upload photos for analysis or editing, similar to other large language models.
  • Projects Update: The chatbot's Projects feature gains user-controlled persistent memory, enabling it to remember preferences across sessions.
  • Performance Improvements: Reporting up to 76% faster response times and a new "thinking mode" for tackling complex queries.
  • Privacy Protection: Lumo continues to emphasize privacy with zero-access encryption and no server-side session logging, ensuring chat contents remain private.
  • Lumo 2.0 is immediately available to the public, with both free and paid versions offering varying levels of access and resources.

Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton, emphasizes that users can enjoy powerful AI capabilities while maintaining meaningful privacy protections.