Proton's AI writing assistant can now also write in German
The email provider Proton is expanding its AI writing assistant. It is now also available for private users and can write in nine languages, including German.
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The Swiss email provider Proton has expanded its AI writing assistant Proton Scribe and revised its user interface. In addition to English, Proton Scribe now supports eight other languages: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Other languages are to follow.
Private individuals can now also use the assistant. Proton Scribe is included in the Duo (for up to two people) and Family (for up to six people) subscription plans, as well as the most comprehensive Proton Visionary and Lifetime plans. Users of Mail Plus or Proton Unlimited can test the service free of charge for 14 days, but must then switch to one of the other plans in order to continue using Scribe. Proton Mail's three business customer subscription plans (Mail Essentials, Mail Professional, Proton Business Suite) include Proton Scribe as an add-on, with prices starting at 3 US dollars per user per month. A 14-day trial version is also available here.
Proton Scribe does not collect any user data
Proton only launched its writing assistant in July. Initially, it was only available to business customers. However, the interest of the Proton community was so great that the service is now also available for private individuals, according to the press release and a blog entry on the expansion of Proton Scribe.
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Proton Scribe is integrated into the Proton Mail email service. Users can use a prompt to compose emails, but the assistant can also proofread or rewrite texts. According to Proton, the AI service is not trained with data from user mailboxes, nor does it store user input or pass on user data to third parties. Proton Scribe uses open source code that can be tested independently.
Users of the corresponding subscription plans can also deactivate Proton Scribe. They can also decide whether the service should run locally on their computer or on Proton's servers. However, the local version is currently only available in English, the other languages only work in the server version. Proton Scribe is based on a language model from Mistral.
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