What is Orbit?
Orbit is a privacy-focused AI tool developed by Mozilla, available as a Firefox add-on. It allows users to efficiently summarize and extract information from various online sources, including emails, articles, documents, and videos. It is designed to operate without storing or sharing personal information or requiring account creation.
The add-on functions directly within the Firefox browser. Orbit enhances productivity by providing concise summaries and answers to user queries, focusing on delivering essential information quickly. The tool supports popular websites such as Gmail, Wikipedia, NY Times, and YouTube.
Features
- Summarization: Quickly summarizes long emails, documents, articles, and videos.
- Question Answering: Provides quick answers to questions about page content.
- Privacy-Focused: Does not store or share personal information or require account creation.
- Context-Aware: Gathers the context of the page (text, images, videos) to provide relevant summaries and answers.
- Adjustable Settings: Allows users to choose their preferred summary length and format.
- Suggested Questions: Offers relevant question recommendations to help users work faster.
Use Cases
- Quickly understanding the main points of long articles.
- Summarizing lengthy email threads to save time.
- Getting the gist of online documents without reading the entire text.
- Extracting key information from online videos.
- Finding specific information within web pages by asking targeted questions.
FAQs
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Do I need to create an account to use Orbit?
No, you can use Orbit without creating an account. -
Does Orbit save the content of the pages I visit or summaries generated?
No, it does not. Orbit erases the session as soon as you navigate away from the page. -
Is my personal information used to train the AI models?
No, it is not. The Mistral 7B LLM used to support Orbit is hosted by Mozilla and the queries are never shared with Mistral or any other services.
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