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Flower Labs , a Y Combinator - backed inauguration , on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud political program for serve AI models , called Flower Intelligence . Mozilla is already using it to power the upcomingAssist summarisation add - onfor its Thunderbird e-mail client .
What makes Flower Intelligence unique , Flower Labssaid in a post on X , is that it can drive on - gadget AI Mobile River , PC , and web apps that automatically hand off to a individual cloud when needed ( with a user ’s permission ) . Apps nonremittal to an AI model run topically for speed and seclusion but switch to Flower ’s cloud when they require extra computational oomph .
company likeMicrosoftandApplehave adopted standardized approaches across their operating arrangement and devices . However , Flower is one of the first to build a hybrid cloud - local AI chopine entirely on capable example , including models fromMeta ’s Llama family , Formosan AI lab DeepSeek , andMistral .
Flower Labs claims that its cloud , the Flower Confidential Remote Compute table service , employs remnant - to - end encryption and “ other technique ” to protect sensitive drug user datum . In a statement , Ryan Sipes , managing director for Mozilla Thunderbird , said that Flower Intelligence enable Mozilla to send on - equipment AI that “ solve topically with the most sensitive information . ”
Developers can apply for early access to Flower Intelligence as of Tuesday . Flower Labs says that it plan to make the service more widely available in the near time to come and introduce capabilities , including model customization , all right - tuning , and “ federated ” grooming in the cloud .
Flower Labs is hosting an on-line and in - someone summit in London on March 26 , where the company is promising to reveal additional Flower Intelligence details and features .
Sincelaunching in 2023 , Flower Labs has raise around $ 23.6 million in venture capital from investor , including Felicis , Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue , Betaworks , and Pioneer Fund . Brave , the capable source web browser app , was an early better half and partner in crime .
