Latest LLM Models in Brave / Brave Premium?

Brave Browser Leo AI
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Hey there! :waving_hand:

Does Brave continually update their LLM models?

For example, is it now using Claude Sonnet 4, if you have Brave Premium?

Would also like some clarity on this topic in general.

Thanks!

– Chris

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Hey Chris,

Short answer: yes but only if it makes sense

We try to upgrade the underlying models as quickly as we can, but it can depend on what the upgrades add/whether the upgrades are good enough to justify the swap.

For Sonnet we upgraded to 4 pretty much on the day it came out, for Haiku we upgraded but then realised there was an issue with image understanding so we rolled back until Gemma 3 comes in next month (then we’ll upgrade Haiku again and let Gemma take over the load on image tasks). We bumped Llama from 3 to 3.1 but 3.2/3.3 didn’t have an 8b equivalent so we went for https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/Llama-3.1-SwiftKV-8B-Instruct instead.

So yeah whenever an upgrade comes out we sit down and figure out if upgrading makes sense, if it does then we try to upgrade as fast as we can

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Thanks so much for the detailed response. I really appreciate it.

That seems like a sensible approach. It would be great, though, to have some official visibility into which models exactly are the current ones and a simple sentence or two on why the upgrade is being delayed. (Like you’ve done very well here in this thread.) It would be nice to have a page or a help desk article that just stays up-to-date with the various changes to the models and what the current one is, like a simple status dashboard if you will.

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No worries at all!

We do have https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/26727364100493-What-are-the-differences-between-Leo-s-AI-Models which says a little bit, but I do really like the idea of a status dashboard - leave it with me and I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for the feedback🙏

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Yes please, that would be great!

Just a simple status dashboard, with the current model number and an explanation about each choice, and maybe what you’re waiting for before upgrading.

Also, maybe update the FAQs for the “Premium” sales page(s). This issue was holding me back from purchasing. If I knew clearly, I might have purchased already.

Thanks for listening to feedback! :raising_hands: