Neo AI

Chat with Neo about any page, your tabs and your files, and keep your conversations private.

Chatting with Neo

Neo Chat opens in a panel beside the page you’re on, so you can ask about what you’re reading without switching tabs. Neo already knows which page you’re looking at.

How to

  1. Click Neo Chat at the right end of the toolbar, or press Ctrl + I (⌘ + I on Mac).
  2. Type your question in the chat box. The current page is included as context.
  3. Keep the conversation going with follow-up questions, or start a new chat for a new topic.

Ways to ask

Fast
Quick answers for everyday questions.
Thinking
Takes longer to work through questions that need planning, weighing options or several steps.
Voice
Click the microphone to speak your question instead of typing it.

Thinking mode

Turn on Thinking to plan a trip on a budget, weigh your options, or work through a tricky decision. Neo takes a little longer and shows its reasoning along the way.

Go deeper on the questions that matter

How to

  1. In the chat box, switch from Fast to Thinking.
  2. Ask your question. Switch back to Fast for quick questions.

Asking about several tabs

Bring information from your open tabs together to compare your options, pull the key points out of several articles, or turn hotel, flight and restaurant tabs into a trip plan.

Neo Chat comparing products from three open tabs and recommending the best fit.
Neo comparing three headphones from three open tabs.

How to

  1. In the chat box, click + and choose “Add tabs”, then select the tabs to include.
  2. Or type @ and pick a tab by name to mention it in your message.
  3. Ask your question. The tabs you added are shown as contexts above the message box.
Neo Chat pulling together the key points from several open articles.
Pulling together the key points from several articles.

Asking about files and photos

Summarize long reports, understand complex contracts, or translate documents in another language. Upload the file and ask.

Ask questions about your documents

How to

  1. In the chat box, click + and choose “Add photos & files”, or drag a file into the chat.
  2. Ask what you want to know about it.

Peek & Summarize links

When you hover over a link, a Neo icon appears next to it. Peek opens a preview of the page without losing your place. Summary gives you the key takeaways in the chat.

How to

  1. Point at a link and click the Neo icon that appears next to it.
  2. Choose Peek to preview the page, or Summary to get the key points in Neo Chat.
  3. In a preview, choose Expand to open the page in a full tab, or Close to go back.

Summarize or explain a selection

Select a paragraph to get its key takeaways without reading every word, or select a term to get a clear explanation of what it means.

Summarize: the main points of a selected paragraph.

How to

  1. Select text on any page.
  2. Choose Summarize for the key points, or Explain for a plain-language explanation.
  3. The answer appears in Neo Chat, where you can ask follow-up questions.
Explain: a financial term put in plain words.

Writing with Neo Composer

Neo Composer writes for you where you’re already typing: an email, a social post, a review, a form or a document. Describe what you want, check the draft, and add it with one click. Nothing is added to your text until you accept it.

Close up of an empty email body. Under the blinking text cursor, the small ring has turned into the round Neo icon because the pointer is on it.

How to

  1. Click in a text box on any website. Neo’s text cursor has a small ring at its foot .
  2. Point at the ring. It turns into the Neo icon . Click it.
  3. In “Describe what you want to write...”, say what you need, like “a short thank-you note to my team”. Type / to use one of your snippets, or click the microphone to speak.
  4. Press Enter. Your draft appears in the Neo Composer panel, where you can also edit it yourself.
  5. Choose Accept to add the draft to the text box.

In the Neo Composer panel

Accept
Adds the draft at your cursor. Any text already in the box stays where it is.
Retry
Writes the draft again from the same request.
Ask for changes
Tell Neo what to change, like “make it shorter” or “more formal”, and send it to get a new version.
Close (X)
Closes the panel and leaves your text as it was.

Creating images

Create an invitation, visualize an idea for your home, or make something funny to share. Describe what you want and refine it until you love the result.

Neo Chat creating an image from a description, beside Neo’s image Gallery.

How to

  1. In Neo Chat, describe the image you want, for example “a birthday invitation with balloons for Maya’s 8th”.
  2. Ask for changes in plain words, like “make it blue” or “add a dog”.
  3. Find everything you’ve created in the Gallery. Browse by date, search, or sort by newest.

Chat history and universal search

Every conversation is kept in Chat History, so you can pick it up later. Universal search looks through your past chats, your browsing history and the web in one go.

Reconnect with information you came across, wherever it was

How to

  1. Choose Chat History in the side bar to see your conversations.
  2. Search for a chat, or pin, rename or delete it from its menu.
  3. To find something you came across before, type it in the Magic Box. Matching chats and pages from your history appear with the web results.

Snippets

A snippet is a saved prompt with a short name, such as “Find coupons” or “Make this shorter”. Insert it into any chat instead of typing the whole instruction again.

Use a snippet

  1. In the chat box, type / to see your snippets, or choose “Insert a snippet”.
  2. Pick one. It drops into the message box as a single chip, and unfolds into the full prompt when you send it.

Create or edit snippets

  1. Open Neo Settings › AI Mode, choose Manage next to “Manage Snippets”, then choose “Add Snippet”.
  2. Enter a snippet name and the prompt, then choose Save.

Memories

With memories on, Neo saves details from your chats, like your dietary preferences or where you live, and uses them in future answers so you don’t have to repeat yourself. Memories need you to be signed in.

How to

  1. Open Neo Settings › AI Mode and choose Manage next to “Manage Memories”.
  2. Choose “Add memory” to tell Neo something directly, or select a memory to edit or remove it.
  3. Choose “Delete all memories” to start over.

Bring memories from another AI

  1. In Manage Memories, choose Import under “Import Memories”.
  2. Copy the prompt Neo gives you into a chat with your other AI provider.
  3. Paste the results back into Neo and choose “Add to memory”.

How Neo keeps your chats private

When you ask Neo something, only your message and the context you chose are sent to the AI model. Details that could identify you are left behind.

  • Stored on your device, not oursYour chat history is stored on your device by default. There is no copy on our servers to read, hand over, or lose.
  • Your message goes. Your identity doesn’t.What you type is sent without identifying details like your IP address, location, or device information.
  • Never used to train AIYour conversations don’t feed our models. What you share with Neo stays between you and Neo.

Local AI

Some Neo features run on a small AI model on your own device, so the data they use never leaves it. Your interests for the News Feed, for example, are worked out locally.

How to

  1. Local AI is on from the start. In Neo Settings › AI Mode its switch reads “Local AI is enabled”.
  2. To turn it off, switch it off. It then reads “Enable Local AI”, and some Neo features, like AI-generated interests, stop working.
  3. Switch “Enable Local AI” back on to turn it on again.

Connecting apps

Connect apps to Neo for a more personalized experience. You need to be signed in to connect apps.

Gmail
Neo can help you manage your emails, summarize important messages, and remind you of key follow-ups without leaving your browser.
Google Calendar
Neo can track your schedule, send you event reminders, and help you plan your day.
LinkedIn
Neo can help you publish content and retrieve your profile information.

How to

  1. Sign in, then open Neo Settings › AI Mode and choose Manage next to “App Integrations”.
  2. Choose Connect next to an app and follow the sign-in steps. Choose Disconnect to remove it.

Reminders

Neo finds relevant events as you browse, like a concert you looked up or a booking confirmation, and reminds you when they are coming up. Reminders start off, so you choose whether to use them.

The Reminders panel, with its For You and Saved tabs. While reminders are off it says “Reminders are turned off” and has an Enable button.

How to

  1. Click Reminders in the side bar. While reminders are off, the panel says “Reminders are turned off”. Choose Enable.
  2. Or turn on Reminders in Neo Settings › Personalization.
  3. Suggested events are under “For You”, and the ones you keep are under “Saved”. Choose “Save reminder” to keep an event, or Snooze or Dismiss a reminder when it comes up.

Still need help?

Choose “Contact Neo Team” in Neo’s side bar to tell us what’s going on, or check the FAQ.