Lumo, Proton's privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade with the release of Lumo 2.0. Proton, the privacy-oriented productivity app company, introduced Lumo publicly last year, and the update adds image recognition and image generation. Users can upload pictures and ask Lumo to analyze or edit them, while the chatbot can also create imagery from prompts. Lumo 2.0 expands “Projects,” the widget that lets users upload documents and work across Proton products such as email and cloud storage. Projects now include user-controlled persistent memory, intended to recall preferences across conversation sessions. Proton says Lumo 2.0 responds to most queries up to 76% faster than before and introduces a new “thinking mode” for complex questions. Proton also reiterates its privacy model, including zero-access encryption architecture and claims of no server-side session logging. Lumo 2.0 is available immediately, with free and paid Plus/Professional tiers.