Brave Adds Leo AI to Brave Talk

Brave announced today that it has integrated its Leo privacy-preserving AI assistant with the premium version of its Brave Talk video calling tool.

“With this integration, Leo can take Brave Talk transcriptions and summarize them, create clean meeting notes and task lists, answer follow-up questions, and more,” Brave’s announcement post explains. “Leo for Brave Talk allows call participants to fully participate in meetings and stay focused on discussions, and let Leo handle the logistics. As with all Brave products, this is done with our full privacy protections by default.”

For those unfamiliar, Brave Talk is a feature of the Brave web browser on desktop and mobile that lets all users make unlimited, private video calls for free with up to four people, with no tracking or data collection, and without requiring a login or a separate app. Brave Talk Premium costs $7 per month and extends the free service with support for more participants, call recordings and, for moderators, call transcripts, hosting tools (participant muting and entry passcodes), and YouTube group watch capabilities.

Brave Leo, meanwhile, is Brave’s private, in-browser AI assistant. It’s a free feature of the desktop, Android, and iPhone/iPad versions of the browser, and it can be used to create webpage and video summaries, answer questions about content, create new content, translate pages, and perform other similar generative tasks. A paid version called Brave Leo Premium costs $15 per month and adds support for industry-leading LLMs like Anthropic’s faster and lighter Claude Instant, higher rate limits, and early access to new features.

With this new integration, Leo can take the transcripts generated by Brave Talk Premium and create summaries and meeting notes, highlight key topics, decisions, and action items, find quotes, create follow-up questions, and more. It’s being sold as a way to be more present during meetings by eliminating the need to take notes in real time.

To address the discrepancy between privacy and the need to record and analyze calls, Brave and 8×8, the partner that provides the underlying service, will store call recordings and transcripts for up to 24 hours, so moderators have time to download them. Otherwise, nothing that’s said or typed in these calls is ever logged or saved. Brave Talk also supports multiple layers of call encryption, and Leo hides IP addresses using a reverse proxy.