Best starting points
Citation quality
Search tools are strongest when users can inspect sources, not just read confident answers.
Workflow depth
Research launches become more useful when they generate reports, pages, citations, or repeatable API workflows.
Risk note
Source-backed AI still needs verification because retrieval can miss context or cite weak pages.
Category guide
AI search and research launch context
AI search and research launches cover tools that help users find, retrieve, cite, summarize, compare, and act on source-backed information.
What belongs here
AI search engines, research assistants, citation tools, retrieval systems, report workflows, browser research agents, and APIs with clear source behavior.
Why this matters
Trust depends on citations, freshness, retrieval quality, source handling, and whether a user can verify the answer rather than accept a generated summary blindly.
For AI companies
Turn a launch into source-backed visibility
Kingy AI uses launch records, tool profiles, Daily Launch Radar coverage, creator-fit signals, and ROI tools to help AI companies move from announcement to useful discovery.
Magistral reasoning models
Mistral AI announced Magistral, its first reasoning model family, with Magistral Small as an open version and Magistral Medium as an enterprise version.
A strong hub record for tracking non-US frontier reasoning alternatives and multilingual reasoning claims.
Deep Research on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental
Google made Gemini Deep Research available with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, improving its research planning and report-generation workflow.
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Google made Gemini Deep Research available with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, improving its research-planning and report-generation workflow (blog.google). It pairs Deep Research with Google's…
Gemini 2.5 thinking model
Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental as a thinking model focused on reasoning, coding, multimodal analysis, and long-context work.
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- 6.9 / 10
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Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental as a thinking model for reasoning, coding, multimodal analysis, and long-context work, in AI Studio and for Gemini…
Claude can now search the web
Anthropic added web search to Claude, enabling current web retrieval, source citations, and source-backed answers inside Claude conversations.
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- 6.6 / 10
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Anthropic added web search to Claude, enabling current web retrieval, source citations, and source-backed answers inside conversations (claude.com). It closes a gap that had…
You.com ARI research agent launch
You.com introduced ARI, a deep research agent for business research that can analyze hundreds of sources and produce research reports.
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- 7.1 / 10
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You.com introduced ARI, a deep research agent for business that analyzes hundreds of sources and produces research reports (you.com). Researchers, Operators, and Knowledge Workers…
Introducing Perplexity Deep Research
Perplexity launched Deep Research as a research mode that runs many searches, reads sources, reasons through the material, and returns a structured report.
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- 6.9 / 10
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Perplexity launched Deep Research, a mode that runs many searches, reads sources, reasons through the material, and returns a structured report (perplexity.ai). It is…
Introducing deep research
OpenAI launched deep research in ChatGPT as an agentic research capability that plans, searches the public web, analyzes sources, and synthesizes cited reports for complex questions.
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- 6.9 / 10
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OpenAI launched deep research in ChatGPT — an agentic capability that plans, searches the public web, analyzes sources, and synthesizes cited reports for complex…
Introducing the Sonar Pro API by Perplexity
Perplexity introduced Sonar Pro API access for developers building search-grounded AI products with citations and web retrieval.
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Perplexity introduced Sonar Pro API access for developers building search-grounded AI products with citations and web retrieval (perplexity.ai). Live retrieval is a building block…
DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, open reasoning models with distilled variants based on Qwen and Llama models.
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- 7.5 / 10
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DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1 and R1-Zero, open reasoning models with distilled variants based on Qwen and Llama, under an MIT-licensed repository (github.com). By the record's…
NotebookLM Plus and interactive Audio Overviews
Google announced NotebookLM Plus, a redesigned NotebookLM interface, and the ability to interact with Audio Overview hosts.
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- 6.7 / 10
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Google announced NotebookLM Plus, a redesigned interface, and the ability to interact with Audio Overview hosts (blog.google). Students, Researchers, and Enterprises got what the…
Introducing ChatGPT search
OpenAI launched ChatGPT search, adding timely web answers with source links inside ChatGPT conversations and making search a native assistant workflow.
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- 7.1 / 10
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OpenAI launched ChatGPT search, adding timely web answers with source links inside conversations and making search a native assistant workflow (openai.com). Researchers, Marketers, and…
Introducing OpenAI o1-preview
OpenAI released the first o1 reasoning model preview, designed to spend more time on hard problems in science, coding, and math.
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- 7.2 / 10
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OpenAI released the first o1 reasoning-model preview, designed to spend more time on hard problems in science, coding, and math, with two system cards…