Reddit announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. With this expansion, the feature is now available in countries like Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Italy.
Users who have set one of these languages as their default instead of English can now chat with the AI in a question-and-answer format. Reddit uses one google ai model To strengthen the facility.
Reddit first started AI-powered search last year And is working to expand it in various ways. The feature is part of Reddit Answers, which lives alongside the platform’s traditional search.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in August Reddit Search has over 70 million weekly users, while Reddit Answers is used by over 6 million people. He also discussed plans to integrate the search experience during the company’s quarterly earnings call.
Q&A-style search and chat interfaces are gaining popularity since ChatGPT integrated web search. Incumbent search engines like Google And Brave Similar features have been introduced to improve user engagement and retention. There are also new startups like Perplexity gained steam With a chat-based search interface.
