The only AI named Kit I accept lives in a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.

Cute, but I don't think a new mascot is what Firefox desperately needs right now.

I understand the reference and know the source, so I'll second you on that.

But... It was K.I.T.T.

I took some artistic liberties. This isn't even an AI agent but just a mascot.

Clippy for the web!!! Exactly what we needed!

I love him. He's adorable. 🧡

I'm really happy to see a piece of news about "... your companion for ..." and it not being about yet another soulless LLM chatbot.

Yeah thats what I initially assumed it was which is pretty sad

Kit is fucking adorable, I love them.

Yes, this makes me give two shits about FF now because a new logo/mascot...?

i miss the cute animal sketches they used on error pages a few years ago. like the confused little dinosaur with the map.

Is it not? I'm so jaded that when I see a company trot out anything cute, squishy, or colorful (be it a logo, character, or whatever), I assume it's another slopbot.

I always meant to look it up, but never got around to it. Today's the day I learn what it stood for!

"Knight Industries Two Thousand." Huh. Kind of a letdown, but at least now I know!

Kit was created by a team of people, not generated by AI. And Kit isn’t an AI assistant or a chatbot.

Glad they cleared that up right away. The only mentions of AI are practically apologies, which is a good sign. I guess bullying works.

In the end, we agreed that Kit isn’t a fox nor a red panda. Kit is a Firefox, its own creature — with attributes from both a fox and a red panda, and perhaps a little fire magic.

This feels like it's for the kind of demographic that the platonic ideal of Firefox should represent.

I'm just glad Firefox is free, because with the way they've been doing things the last couple iterations I dont see a very good future for it.

Thank dog there're alternatives out there.

Great, how much money was wasted on this thing that's not an essential part of a 100% standards-compliant browser?

Because that's what Firefox needs to be. That's all it should ever have been.

Definitely thought that's what this was until reading your comment

And then there was its evil twin, K.A.R.R.

To all the people who read neither the article, nor the other comments pointing it out:

This is NOT an AI chatbot!

And I think it's a great idea! And Kit looks cute!

Maybe Mozilla finally noticed that most Firefox users are not all that enthusiastic about AI and would rather see development on other parts of Firefox.

I'm torn on which is worse.

Actually went and read the thing to be sure but yeah it's just like a branding/mascot thingy, not a bot

Interesting. What's the over/under on when they hook it up to a bot tho?

Oh, I remember him! I never looked that one up, either..."Knight Automated Roving Robot." Better!

Knight Automated Roving Robot

Huh, I thought it was Kybernetic Intelligence Thingy Thing.

In what way?

as much as llms suck. if I had the money, I'd restore a 1982 Pontiac firebird and it an llm with a voice model based on kit. that can control the infotainment and had access to the car's odb and other functions.

all running on a gpu inside the car. using a local model

So you want a browser nobody uses?

Or do you want a browser with a good ux? Because this is part of a good ux.

That would be better than abbreviating 2000 as TT instead of 2K!

e621 presence in 3... 2....

Think it will be faster than r34 sites?

I like this. Let's make the internet a bit more fun again, everything is cold and soulless nowadays

Hooray! New clippy!

This isn't an AI. Kit is just the name of their redesigned mascot. They literally said in the article that it wasn't designed with AI and isn't an AI chatbot.

Since the FF purists can’t get over their hump, may I suggest a far better alternative: https://www.waterfox.com/

At one point, we asked ourselves whether or not Kit should look more like a red panda (leading to a brief detour into red panda references).

In the end, we agreed that Kit isn’t a fox nor a red panda. Kit is a Firefox, its own creature — with attributes from both a fox and a red panda, and perhaps a little fire magic.

Just my 2 cents, but since Red Pandas are endangered, I would have preferred that the made Kit a Red Panda.

Yep, started with what was good and refined it to what is far better.

Same. Firefox is a literal nickname for red pandas!

As long as it's driven by open standards and not DoubleClick's monetization plans, I'm of the mindset that either the users will find it, or else those who care need to build a new and different network that's actively toxic to advertising.

UX is a secondary concern after decrapifying the engine and the browser and making the browser an actual user agent, rather than a virtual machine. Possibly even tertiary.

If it's a locally running model trained from ethically sourced data, you'd already be doing better than 99.9% of the piece of shit techbro CEOs out there even if it barely could turn the radio on...

I want Kit stickers for my laptop. I will pay for them. Mozilla please take my money and give me adorable stickers.

Yeah this is great. KDE has had Konqi and Katie forever. I like that Firefox is getting it's own mascot as well.

I absolutely LOVE their modern designs. The early Konqi 3D model design was just straight up ugly, IMO.

It's an animal mascot, so I'd guess a solid "maybe."

Kit has been around for a while, just never really front and center like this. Theres already some art there, though im sure soon there will be a lot more.

It seems unlikely. The mascot has been around for a while, and it's usually in notifications.

To paraphrase a popular tech YouTuber, Kit is just trying to help.

the firefox mascot can now use fire bending

chrome is going to fall behind in the browser wars

They literally designed it without a mouth to illustrate it isnt supposed to talk so the answer is very low chance

Loooooolll....