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Founder . Humanizing the web with Kagi search and Orion browser. Prefer lists to following.
EntrepreneurPalo Alto, CAkagi.comJoined January 2017

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Just days after the release of FastGPT API we are seeing people already build cool integrations. Here is "Kagi FastGPT CLI" allowing lightning fast answers to any query directly from your command shell. github.com/bcspragu/kagi
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We are happy to annouce we have launched the API for FastGPT! Read the Documentation here and start building today! help.kagi.com/kagi/api/fastg FastGPT demo: labs.kagi.com/fastgpt
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Watching WWDC and seeing Safari introduce Profiles and WebApps with WebKit - things Orion already did in the last few months. We were playing the catch up game for a long time and now for the first time it feels we are ahead of Safari and perhaps even inspiration for its… Show more
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Time flies! The idea of user-centric search and browser that you pay for with your wallet instead of with your attention, time and private data is real. There's no turning back now - this movement is here to stay. Thank you for being a part of this… Show more
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A year ago today, we took a leap with the launch of Kagi Search & Orion Browser's public beta. Your enthusiastic embrace humbled us. 🙏 Thank you to each one of our valued users and supporters - you're the reason we're here today. Here's to many years together! 🎉
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If you liked FastGPT you are going to love ExpertGPT. We are going very deep with this one. Performing multiple searches using the power of Kagi search, and the best available LLM models to always find the right answer to your query. Already beating all competitors in our… Show more
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Just cancelled my Twitter Blue subscription. I am all for paying for the product and not being one. But the number of ads I was still seeing in my feed was astounding and intelligence insulting. There should be zero ads shown to paying customers, otherwise what is the point?… Show more
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Kagi just became more convenient. Thank you everyone for your continued patronage. New users, welcome!
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We have an exciting update to our pricing plans - We are adding more searches and making AI features unlimited across all plans! Read more in our blog post: blog.kagi.com/plan-changes
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I like how this puts things into perspective. - Bing is still a tiny speck in the universe and has less traffic than ChatGPT - Both of them added together are same as Yandex - Google towering above everything Don't think I'd prefer running any of those over Kagi though. ❤️ Show more
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We'd love to hear feedback from you!
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We are making our latest experiment, FastGPT, publicly available. FastGPT is the fastest "GPT" out there, that is powered by a full search engine underneath. It is primarily an experiment in speed as an important part of search. Try it here: labs.kagi.com/fastgpt
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Mother of all LLM benchmarks! - Use GPT-4 if you need best quality - Use claude-instant-v1 for everything else - Google PaLM2 is nowhere near OpenAI/Anthropic - OpenAI models are painfully slow compared to competition - Open-source models next source: github.com/kagisearch/pyl
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GPT3.5-turbo is painfully slow these days at only 17 tokens/sec (latency seems to be getting worse and worse). Quality wise, it is still king (second only to gpt-4).
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GPT3.5-turbo is painfully slow these days at only 17 tokens/sec (latency seems to be getting worse and worse). Quality still king (second only to gpt-4).
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PaLM2 is less capable (quality wise) than GPT3.5-turbo or Claude-instant. Cost wise, it is similar to gpt3.5 and twice as fast. As such it will have hard time finding place in the market in its current iteration.
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Ready for a browsing revolution? Try Orion Browser now! Even in beta, it's leaving the competition in the dust with blazing speed and game-changing features! 🔥
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Major Orion Browser release lands with over 160 new features, improvements and bug fixes. blog.kagi.com/orion-new-feat This is our largest release ever: 1/n
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A huge update to the Kagi search experience today!
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We just landed a significant update to the Kagi Search experience across web search, news/images/videos as well as added reverse image search, podcasts search and public records search. Read everything about it our latest announcement: blog.kagi.com/search-enhance
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Memory for AI models in three lines of code. Early developer version, do not use in production ;)
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We are open-sourcing VectorDB, a minimal Python package for implementing short-term memory for use in LLMs. VectorDB simplifies storing and retrieving content from a vector database without any knowledge of embeddings or vector search. github.com/kagisearch/vec
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What is theoretical speed of an AI + a full web search engine? FastGPT answers the question. For every query, FastGPT runs a full web search and runs it through an LLM model. We are typically seeing first character at just 900ms!
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We launched FastGPT, experiment in fastest possible AI with built in search. labs.kagi.com/fastgpt
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🌁 SF LLM meetup 27 April update: 👋 , founder of is joining us to talk about AI-first search. Waitlist 🎟: lu.ma/sf-ai-meetup
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👋 Join the LLM best practices meetup in SF 27 April! - @atroyn from @trychroma on embedding databases - @amasad from @Replit on weaving AI + code - @_sholtodouglas from @GoogleAI on speed+scaling - +1 attendee submitted talk proposal, TBA 🙏 Sign up: lu.ma/sf-ai-meetup
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My twitter feed is full of auto-gpt/baby-agi stuff and after thinking through this, one thing is clear. This is not AGI by any stretch of imagination. It is does not even appear to be a step on the path to AGI. Furthermore, due to autoregressive nature of GPT models, the more… Show more
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Continuing to have a lots of fun. Now have three custom buttons: Unbiased News, Summarizer and My Warren Buffet. Each uses a custom prompt targeted at analyzing different type of content. There is something magic in all this being native in the browser.
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The upcoming release of Orion browser will feature “Custom Actions” which are programmable toolbar buttons. This allows us to execute any code, including calling a GPT model! How about, creating “Unbiased News” button, that will give us unbiased version of the news article… Show more
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After four years, the dream of a family-friendly search experience is coming to a realization. It sounds unreal and dystopian but the only way kids could search the web before Kagi Family plan is to have advertisers pay for their searches ⁉️ This changes today. We are… Show more
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And we are live with the Kagi Family plan! blog.kagi.com/family-plan
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More native web app goodness, powered by Orion! You can specify if you want Desktop/Mobile view; what profile to use and even specify a dock icon. This was previously a feature of paid macOS apps, now available for free through Orion.
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Next release of Orion browser is featuring support for native web apps. No more resource-hungry Electron apps; Orion will make websites available as WebKit-powered native apps! In this video I am creating a new Web App and also starting four other web apps I created previously.… Show more
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That did not take long. A perfect way to ruin a promising concept in search.
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Bing Chat now has Ads! It's going to be fascinating to see how the unit economics of Ads in language models will unfold and affect search advertising. 1/3
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Word on the street is that there's a growing underground movement of Googlers who are covertly using Kagi for their search needs.
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Bard is too honest that it even knows and admits that Google does not provide the best search experience anymore. Kudos @KagiHQ
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Universal Summarizer is back and is better than ever! 1/n
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Universal Summarizer is here! Read everything about it in our announcement blog post: blog.kagi.com/universal-summ Try it: kagi.com/summarizer
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