DuckDuckGo AI Chat hands-on: private multi-model access, but no memory or agents
Android Authority tested Duck.ai (DuckDuckGo AI Chat) and found its anonymized proxy strips IP addresses, browser metadata and account identifiers before forwarding prompts, with contractual terms barring model providers from training on user data; no account is required and chat history stays local or end-to-end encrypted. The single interface lets users switch among GPT-4o mini, Claude 3.5 Haiku, Llama 3.3 and Mixtral, but it lacks cross-session memory, a code-execution sandbox, heavy file and image multimodal tools, and custom agents or workflows. The reviewer says everyday queries feel about as fast as using ChatGPT directly, while heavy Gemini or ChatGPT users will quickly notice the missing features.
It is a hands-on look at a privacy-first AI front end, showing that anonymization still trades away personalization and agentic capability.