DuckDuckGo user growth surges after Google’s AI-powered Search redesign, as privacy-focused users seek alternatives to AI-heavy search results.

DuckDuckGo has announced new voice chat capabilities for Duck.ai, the private AI chatbot platform it launched last March.

The new feature lets users have real-time voice conversations with large language models (LLMs) through an encrypted relay connection. OpenAI provides the LLMs that power voice chats, but DuckDuckGo says that neither it nor OpenAI stores any audio after conversations…