Duck.ai

Duck.ai is a privacy-focused AI chat platform developed by DuckDuckGo, offering users anonymous access to a range of popular third-party Large Language Models (LLMs) from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, including models such as GPT-4o mini and Claude 3 Haiku. The platform is designed to provide the benefits of AI interaction, such as summarizing text, answering questions, or generating content, without compromising user privacy. Duck.ai achieves this by employing a proxying technique that anonymizes user requests and strips all personal metadata, such as IP addresses, before sending them to the model providers. Crucially, DuckDuckGo ensures that conversations are never stored on its servers, are not used to train or improve the AI models, and are instead stored locally on the user’s device with the ability to be deleted easily. The service is available for free, integrated into the DuckDuckGo search engine experience for seamless use, and is positioned as a secure, optional, and accountable alternative to mainstream AI chatbots.