Proton Gains Email Assistant With AI and Privacy

Proton, the software company that owns the Proton Mail email client, has launched a new app artificial intelligence (AI) based text generation assistant. Name of the source Proton PrinterIt is a toolkit aimed primarily at those who use this form of communication a lot in the workplace.

Service Proton Mail strengthens its Gmail alternative strategyThe Google platform also has a built-in texting assistant that is based on the Gemini chatbot and is also available for Google Docs.

Scribe is available for $2.99 ​​(approximately R$17 at current exchange rate) to customers on Mail Essentials, Mail Professional, and Proton Business Suite plans. Visionary and Lifetime subscribers get the new feature as a bonus at no additional cost.

A safe assistant

Proton Scribe consists of three functions in total: Shorten (abbreviation), Make a correction (review) and Make it official (make it official).

Inside ShortenAI takes a text in draft form and makes it more objective and clear, which is ideal for quick messages that need to be more direct. Make a correction The system focuses on finding errors and spelling or grammar.

Finally the option Make it official For business messages that are important and require more serious vocabulary, it changes the text to something more relatable to the corporate sector.

Since one of Proton Mail’s focuses is privacy, the company ensures that: Scribe does not use user inbox data to train its AIThis is guaranteed by the encryption built into the service by default, meaning that all data and language models used here are open source.

If you want an extra layer of privacy, you can request that Scribe only run on your device, ensuring that no data goes to the company’s servers. This option requires downloading files and more powerful hardware, but it pays off in terms of security.

Proton, which is still part of the competition with Google, also announced a free text editor and file storage service in recent years.