tl;dr of the article: Rather than building a closed AI stack (like Google - but they don't name it) Mozilla is pursuing partnerships. In this case, they are partnering with Exa.ai to offer AI integrations on desktop and iOS devices with visible source citations. There is no mention of confidential computing, hardware enclaves, or other technical mechanisms but they promise zero data retention. (Did I forget anything?)
The sloppy announcement is unfortunate, because there is no real need for that: exa.ai/about looks interesting to me. (Proper product, detailed changelog, etc.) For some reason, they just were unable to write about the cool stuff this partnership might enable in their announcement. Perhaps they thought it would be too controversial for their brand. (edit2: See: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/verticals/people )
edit: Not entirely sure, but maybe I even used Exa already unknowingly as an engine in the OpenRouter web search plugin.
I honestly can't remember having been excited by anything Mozilla has done over the last few years. This isn't different.
You almost had me, lol.
And isn’t this the same Exa who released People Search? Why would I expect them to value my privacy when they monetize people finding me?
But our Exa news isn’t about one feature or product. It’s about model choice and how people find things online.
Mozilla PR department seems to be vanilla Claude.
tl;dr of the article: Rather than building a closed AI stack (like Google - but they don't name it) Mozilla is pursuing partnerships. In this case, they are partnering with Exa.ai to offer AI integrations on desktop and iOS devices with visible source citations. There is no mention of confidential computing, hardware enclaves, or other technical mechanisms but they promise zero data retention. (Did I forget anything?)
The sloppy announcement is unfortunate, because there is no real need for that: exa.ai/about looks interesting to me. (Proper product, detailed changelog, etc.) For some reason, they just were unable to write about the cool stuff this partnership might enable in their announcement. Perhaps they thought it would be too controversial for their brand. (edit2: See: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/verticals/people )
edit: Not entirely sure, but maybe I even used Exa already unknowingly as an engine in the OpenRouter web search plugin.
https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/plugins/web-searc...