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Title: DuckDuckGo's subscription now offers some of the latest chatbots from
OpenAI and Anthropic

Link: https://www.engadget.com/duckduckgos-subscrip...

Since the start of last summer, DuckDuckGo has offered a handful of AI
chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic and others directly through its browser. And
while it's mostly low-cost models like GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku on
offer, the feature, Duck.ai, allows you to use those tools without
sacrificing your privacy. As a service, that appears to have resonated with
DuckDuckGo users, and now the company is reorienting its Privacy Pro
subscription around access to more advanced models from those providers.

The good news? The price of the service ΓÇö either $10 per month or $100
billed annually ΓÇö remains unchanged, and you still get all the previous
perks included in the package. What is changing is the name. It's now simply
known as the DuckDuckGo subscription, and, in addition to offering access to
the company's own VPN, as well as its personal information removal and
identity protection services, it allows you to use some of the latest models
from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The full list features GPT-4o, GPT-5, Sonnet
4.0 and Llama 4 Maverick. As before, any conversations you have with those
chatbots through DuckDuckGo are anonymized and your data won't be used for
training future systems.

"Today, we're expanding Duck.ai by giving DuckDuckGo subscribers access to
more advanced AI models, covered by the same strong protections," said
DuckDuckGo. "The base version of Duck.ai is not changing; itΓÇÖs still free
to use, with no account necessary. WeΓÇÖre just adding more models for
subscribers."

If you don't want to use the new AI perks, you don't have to; DuckDuckGo
allows users to hide all the AI buttons found in its browser's search,
desktop and mobile settings. That said, the company notes it's exploring the
option of offering higher subscription tiers with access to even more
advanced AI models in the future.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/duckduckgos-subscrip...
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