Comment by rvz
1 day ago
> But we strongly believe that a privacy-first browser with local LLM support is more important than ever – since agents will have access to so much sensitive data.
How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering?
But if it doesn't make money, I can only assume that the team will be acqui-hired to answer that question.
> How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering?
Our plan is to make the consumer version of the browser for free and sell licenses for enterprise version.
This is similar to how many open-source projects sustain development.
And enterprise browsers are picking up -- Island browser, Talon browser.
> Our plan is to make the consumer version of the browser for free and sell licenses for enterprise version.
Makes sense and the software license chosen (AGPL-3.0) also makes sense as well.
Sounds like a clear path to monetization and much better than some of the VC backed browser-first companies out there.
Good luck.
Thank you!