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An overview of LLMs and prompting techniques for coders

Kagi Search is pleased to announce the introduction of three AI features into our product offering. We'd like to discuss how we see AI's role in search, what are the challenges and our AI integration philosophy....

Universal Summarizer is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon by uploading a file). Universal Summarizer in action One...

There's a new web search in town! I spent the start of 2024 kicking the tires on Kagi's paid search and their Orion web browser.

Google Search is dead to me. Here's how and why Kagi's high quality results and compelling value proposition allowed me to fully make the switch.

At the end of October, I handed over $11 USD to “Premium” search engine Kagi, partially as an experiment, and partially with a hope for a better search experience. Why on earth would an…

What I think about the independent search engine after 500 days.

TL;DR Today we're releasing two research assistants: Quick Assistant and Research Assistant (previously named Ki during beta). Kagi's Research Assistant happened to top a popular benchmark (SimpleQA) when we ran it in August 2025. This was...