Bring Your Own Model (BYOM): using Brave Leo with your own LLMs
Summary
Brave introduces 'Bring Your Own Model' (BYOM), allowing users to connect Leo AI to local or remote LLMs via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for increased privacy and control.
Key quotes
With BYOM, the requests are made directly from the user’s device to the specified model endpoint, bypassing Brave entirely.
Brave does not act as an intermediary and has absolutely no access to—or visibility into—the traffic between the user and the model.
The article provides technical instructions for integrating local models using frameworks like Ollama or connecting to remote APIs such as OpenAI. BYOM was released to general desktop users in version 1.69.