I have to admit, I thought sticking an AI chatbot into the sidebar was a dumb gimmick to cash in on the hype around ChatGPT and all its clones. Why is a browser integrating this? I could just visit ChatGPT or whatever in a tab.

Boy was I wrong.

I'll tell you what changed my mind: the realization that I can hit Control-B (your milage may vary) and it opens the sidebar, in which I have Leo set as the default for the sidebar. So now, with a single keyboard shortcut, I have Leo ready and waiting for my input.

This has changed the way I browse. Seriously.

I can now just say "summarize" and it condenses the page/article to a few lines. I can ask follow-ups. I can be on a YouTube video and get the summary of that. I can be browsing forums and ask Leo questions about something I'm reading and it will know the exact context. Info on actors on movies I'm watching in-browser. Code recommendation and checking when a piece of python or regex isn't working right. Even I am shocked at how much I use Leo now.

And I have to say, adding Mixtral into it has made it even better. On the few times when the Llama version of Leo struggles to give detailed/accurate answers, I can switch up to Mixtral and get noticeably better results, for free, up to a certain limit that I seem to hit if I get too chatty with it. But 8/10 times the completely free Llama version is enough.

I'm just overall very impressed with this. It sounds stupid but I having it be only a single keyboard shortcut away, instead of several mouse clicks away, made a huge difference in how much I use it. Now, when I'm forced into Chrome at times, I realize how much I miss it.

Give it a try. It has improved my experience of Brave tremendously.