Brave is a privacy-focused web browser and search engine founded in 2015. Brave aims to transform the online experience by prioritizing user privacy, speed, and control.

The Brave Browser blocks third-party ads and trackers by default, enhancing browsing speed and reducing data usage. It includes built-in security features like protection against fingerprinting and offers a seamless, private browsing experience. The browser offers a top funnel, privacy preserving ad unit called the New Tab Takeover which allows brands to own every other tab within the browser. Reach a unique audience without the use of cookies, trackers or pixels.

Brave Search is the world’s largest private search index and one of the fastest-growing independent search engines since Bing. Being one of just three independent search engines available globally, every click on Brave Search is truly incremental to advertisers. It delivers results without profiling users, collecting IP addresses, or storing search history. Unlike many search engines, Brave Search maintains its own index, ensuring user anonymity and independence from Big Tech data practices.

Brave AI has also expanded into privacy-preserving artificial intelligence through features integrated directly into search and the browser. Ask Brave allows users to pose natural language questions and receive synthesized answers directly within search results. Answers with Brave (also known as the Brave Summarizer) uses AI to generate concise summaries of web content, citing sources without building user profiles. Within the browser, Leo serves as an integrated AI assistant capable of summarizing pages, answering questions, generating content, and assisting with tasks, all while maintaining Brave’s privacy-first architecture by minimizing data retention and avoiding cross-session tracking. Not to mention ads for brands within each of these AI features.