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Brave Leo adds End-to-end Encryption, Oblivious HTTP, and Verifiable Confidential Computing

Brave added end-to-end encryption, Oblivious HTTP, and verifiable confidential computing to its Leo AI assistant, which runs the open-weight GLM model. Prompts are encrypted on the user's device before leaving it, so only an attested Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) can decrypt them and perform confidential LLM inference.

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Conversations with the open-weight GLM model in Leo are protected by end-to-end encryption and hardware-backed confidential computing. Your Brave browser encrypts each prompt on your device, before leaving your device, such that only an attested Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) can decrypt your prompts and run confidential LLM inference on it.

Here’s how it works, in a nutshell: (click for more details)

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