Mozart has entered the realm of artificial intelligence with the 'Orbit' assistant.

Mozila released an artificial intelligence-driven assistant extension called Orbit to the Firefox browser, which can summarize long emails, documents, web articles, and videos.

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You can install the extensions for free from the Firefox add-ons website. Please note that Orbit is currently in beta and only works in the Firefox browser on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Upon installation, you must agree to "essential data collection" to use Orbit. When Orbit is active, you'll see a small circular Orbit button that floats above web content. Hit the button, and you'll be presented with three options: Summarize, Ask Orbit, and Settings.

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This is not Firefox's first encounter with generative AI. In Firefox 126, it supported NVIDIA's AI video upscaling. Additionally, Firefox's new translation feature uses an AI model on the device. Mozilla is also participating in experiments for a local AI model that generates alternative text for PDF images to help visually impaired people.

Orbit works across major websites and can provide a detailed summary of a story when you visit a page and select "Summarize." For example, when opening a long email in Gmail's web interface, Orbit extracts the core message and provides a summary. Orbit can also summarize long videos in text form, but it usually functions well.

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Do not expect miracles. Large language models (LLM) have limitations. When trying to summarize nearly three hours of an interview with Dan Trumpon on YouTube, the video was too long and a warning appeared. Despite this, my video summary was obtained, but I could only describe the content very broadly. Additionally, when I tried Orbit on Vimeo and Twitch, it worked as expected.

The "Ask Orbit" option displays a chatbot-style interface for asking questions about a page. I used it to summarize an article on prompt creation for high-quality AI image generation and requested five important points.

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The results were satisfactory. LLMs are at the peak of text summarization, and Orbit (which uses Mistral LLM) is no exception. Orbit has no issues with summarizing various blog articles, news articles, and Wikipedia entries. However, Orbit cannot be used as an independent chatbot. It can only answer questions related to the webpage you are viewing.

You can customize some of Orbit's features. By selecting the settings options, you can choose your preferred response format for list items, paragraphs, or short sentences. You can select content you want Orbit to automatically summarize, such as emails and YouTube videos. If you don't like the floating button for Orbit, you can completely hide it or minimize it. Additionally, if important web content covers the button, you can drag and move it.

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Orbit does not require an account and also does not save summaries in the cloud. "Mozilla notes that 'Orbit's summaries are only available for the page you are currently viewing.' When navigation occurs from that page, Orbit will delete the session."

Your questions are shared with Mistral. Mozilla is not using user data for AI training. Orbit is built as a modular structure, and it is designed to allow for switching to better open-source models if they appear in the future. The advantage of not sharing user data with the model means that we cannot influence or train the model.

"Currently, Orbit is limited to English queries and summaries. Please download Orbit from Firefox's additional features page and check how it can integrate into your workflow."