
Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade
THE SO WHAT
Proton pushing Lumo 2.0 with broader capabilities is a bet that privacy-first assistants can be a real consumer wedge, not just a niche. If your product touches sensitive data, expect users to start asking why your AI story doesn’t look more like Proton’s threat model.
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