Brave was announced today that it is adding the newly built CodeLLM to its search engine to provide results for programming queries. The new AI-powered CodeLLM provides code snippets with step-by-step explanations and references. CodeLLM is free and is now integrated into Brave Search so users don’t have to switch apps to access it.
CodeLLM is available to all Brave Search users on desktop and mobile. If Brave Search is your default search engine, all you need to do to access CodeLLM is start a search in your browser’s address bar. If Brave Search is not your default search engine, then you must go to search.brave.com to perform your search.
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“CodeLLM automatically finds programming-related queries, so you don’t need to create a special search,” Brave explained in a blog post. “Above the search results, if an answer is possible, there will be a widget that will trigger the CodeLLM response. Programming queries are detected outside of LLM, by other search components (similar to those that can detect queries about the weather, queries that can be summarized, queries about stock prices, etc.).
Brave says CodeLLM’s underlying technology is built on top of Mixtral, which is an LLM that can use text messages to generate code.
Today’s announcement comes two months after Brave released its AI assistant, Leo, to all desktop users. Based on Llama 2 and Anthropic’s Claude LLM, Leo can handle context-aware requests such as summarizing web pages or videos, translating text, and rewriting sentences. Brave also released a paid version of the assistant for $15 a month to give users access to premium features such as access to faster and better large language models (LLM) and higher price limits.
Brave Search, which launched two years ago, has grown to serve an average of 25 million queries per day. The company says Brave Search is the default search engine for many of Brave’s more than 60 million users.
