New one
Protonmail – the company known for aggressively protecting your privacy – has come out with their own AI: Lumo. The purple cat mascot is a nice touch.
It will do OCR, though when I tried to paste an image into the query, it failed. Answers so far have been okay.
I like Proton as a company. They offer free versions of Mail, VPN, Drive, Pass, Calendar, and the Lumo chatbot. Basically a Gmail account but nuts about privacy.
One tip: when Lumo answers a question, it appears hidden under the floating query box. You have to scroll down to see it. I sat there for the longest time thinking it had let me down.
Posted: September 8th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 5
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Comment from MrKnowitall
Time: September 9, 2025, 12:35 am
Have you tried Nano Banana yet? I’d put a link in here, but it might get spam-foldered. So get thee to Y’allTube and look for “How to use Nano Banana for FREE (AI filmmaking guide)”. Maybe your image generation will work better. You could even clean up some of your old images for amusement.
For chat AI, Ollama run on you local machine is nice & private. And free! (ok, it’s gonna be a bit slower, but hey..)
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: September 9, 2025, 12:39 am
I tried my three trick questions on Lumo. It blew all three. ChatGPT blew them too last year, but has gotten much better.
ChatGPT’s wrong answers were seriously garbled and/or hallucinatory; Lumo’s are just wrong.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 9, 2025, 5:24 pm
You’re not going to tell us your three trick questions?!
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: September 9, 2025, 6:46 pm
No, he’s going to make us beg.
OK, Rich, I’m begging you! What are the three trick Qs?
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: September 9, 2025, 10:55 pm
By request:
Who was Queen Victoria’s elder brother?
What US Vice President was elected by the Senate?
Which Union general was killed by Jefferson Davis?
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