Brave Search Adds Chat Mode to Answer with AI

Building on the Answer with AI feature it added back in April, Brave today announced a new Chat mode for Brave Search that lets you ask follow-up questions to queries.

“Starting today, when a query is recognized as a question, Brave Search provides a summary with a chat bar,” the announcement post explains. “Engaging with this chat bar opens a chat experience, allowing users to explore the topic in more depth.”

This new Chat mode is powered by open and internal LLMs (large language models), Brave says, plus Brave Search results, reducing the chance of hallucinations. It builds on a previous feature, Answer with AI, which delivers Big Tech-free generative AI-based answers to questions at the top of the search results page. According to Brave, this experience now generates over 11 million answers daily. And now users can expand on that initial answer with follow-up questions: You’ll see an “Ask a follow-up question” chat box appear at the end of the AI answer so you can keep going.

To test this, I asked Brave Search, “How many Star Wars movies are there?” Answer with AI responded that there were 12 canonical Star Wars movies*, with several more in development. So I asked, “when is the next movie coming out?” and it replied that The Mandalorian & Grogu has a May 22, 2026 release date.

As with everything Brave does, Brave Search, Answer with AI, and the new Chat mode all emphasize user privacy, with no profiling or stored search history. (The results note that, “This chat is temporary and will not be saved.”) “These conversations are ephemeral, meaning they’re not persisted or stored,” the company explains. “Your conversations with Answer with AI remain safe and private.”

Brave Search, Answer with AI, and Chat mode are free. If you’re using Brave and haven’t changed the default search engine, you can start a search directly from the address bar. Otherwise, you can visit Brave Search with any web browser and try it that way.

* This is incorrect, there are 11. It counted Andor (2022), a television series, as a movie for some reason. As it says, “AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.” But Wikipedia also says there are 12, with the 12th being a quickie theatrical release of some The Clone Wars episodes as a movie of sorts. Eh.