Suddenly they were everywhere. The AIs. The Chatbots. The LLMs.
ChatGPT was the first Large Language Model that truly went public, unlike Siri and Alexa, ChatGPT didn’t just answer questions like it was Google Search, it had conversations and asked you questions. It felt so human it scared some people while some others fell, at least a little, in love with it.
At first, this relationship was consensual – you had to choose to use ChatGPT. Then things changed. Copilot appeared inside Windows without being invited. Meta AI turned up inside Facebook and WhatsApp. An AI joined your Zoom meeting, ready to take notes, unless you switched it off.
Chatbots — or LLMs, Large Language Models — are now the most familiar face of generative AI: systems that generate text, images, music, or video. They produce answers in a way that seems like thought, like consciousness, even though what they’re doing is something very different.
Meet Lumo and the Rest
Lumo is the in-house LLM of Proton, a privacy oriented email provider, and if a major concern is privacy then Lumo is to be recommended alongside Proton Mail.
Lumo is much less well known that other LLM’s like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. You can find links to and comments about these LLMs on the AI Gallery page of this site.