Duck.ai now includes more powerful reasoning models, including GPT 5 mini for free users and GPT 5.2 for subscribers. Here are the details. Reasoning mode available to free users and subscribers If you’re not familiar with Duck.ai, this is DuckDuckGo’s chatbot platform that gives access to private conversations from models by Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and OpenAI. In recent months, Duck.ai has rolled out features such as voice chats , image generation , image editing , and more. As DuckDuckGo explains it, Duck.ai anonymizes chats by default, and none of the conversations are used to train AI models: “All metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is completely removed before prompting the model provider. This means chats to Anthropic, OpenAI, and together.ai (which hosts Meta Llama and Mixtral on their servers) appear as though they are coming from DuckDuckGo rather than individual users.…