Firefox is getting an integrated AI assistant

Mozilla has announced that they are experimenting with integrating a chatbot into Firefox. It uses advanced language models to communicate with users using the natural language. The company starts testing the new feature this week in nightly builds of Firefox.

The chatbot will be available in a sidebar, and users can select from various services such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral. There are plans to expand the range of supported AI services in the future. Additionally, users have the option to add their own AI service, including locally-run services using open language models. This can be done using the llamafile tool, which creates universal executable files for machine learning models. Instructions for integrating personal models will be released at a later date.

Users can interact with the chatbot by sending text queries in a chat format, or by highlighting text on a page to create a summary or explanation in simpler language. To activate the chatbot, users must enable the "AI Chatbot Integration" experiment in the settings under the "Nightly Experiments" section.

To send the selected text to the bot, you will need to right-click it and then select the "Ask chatbot" option in the context menu.

The chatbot can be pinned to the sidebar using the panel content customization interface.

So, Mozilla is following the modern trend of AI integration in browsers and other popular software. Mozilla's solution is one of the most configurable and flexible on the market. But some users aren't happy with addition of these AI features to the application core. In case of Firefox, many express the opinion that it could be implemented via an extension rather than adding the hardcoded AI bot.

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