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I don't use Google anymore, and haven't in over a year (I use kagi instead) but for finding information that could be buried deep within slow, ad ridden websites, the AI and quick question features are indispensable. Things like "is game XYZ available on gamepass" or "which is state is comparable in area to germany" are good examples of this

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Does Kagi have AI Mode?

Kagi assistant is hybrid search / LLM

What model are they using?

They offer most models from the large AI players (anthropic, openai, mistral, meta, grok, google, deepseek)

Why would you use Kagi instead of any of these models directly?

convenience through a UI?

You get all of them for the price of one kagi sub instead of a half dozen subs

They're also free.

They have a few interfaces that you can trigger an AI answer through

The first, and most useful to me, is when you just append a ? to your query. This pops up the answer in an info box at the top of a search, and then shows related results below

The second is the assistant mode, which pops up either when you use the continuing link at the bottom of an info box, or trigger it directly via the assistant URL. This is the standard conversational interface

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