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Opt-in Firefox window for chatting with a user-selected AI assistant; gained Exa web search, tab grouping and visual history previews on August 18.
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Firefox's Exa-powered assistant appears only to users who switch it on, a wager that restraint sells where default-on assistants have not.
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Firefox's AI assistant is out of North America for the first time, and in French. Mistral's announcement says the browser is now powered by its models; Mozilla says it added one option among several.
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The September 16 partnership gives Firefox's beta assistant retrieval with sources, tab grouping and history previews, and each request only sees the tabs and history you grant it. Beta coverage is the US, Canada and France.
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Mozilla evaluated Mistral Small 4 on multilingual performance and shipped it into the Firefox Smart Window beta. Mistral gets consumer distribution without owning a browser, and the model stays switchable.
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Firefox's opt-in Smart Window gained Exa web search, tab grouping and visual history on August 18. The product is small; the positioning is the whole bet.
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