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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by justinrubek »

i_love_retros wrote: post #145

Kagi are one of my favorite companies. In a world where buying a T-shirt requires me to hand over my phone number ("in case we need to contact you about your order" - yeah, right) I find it so refreshing that kagi barely require any info from me except some form of payment.

At least you got your shirt. I waited for many, many months, where I consistently checked to see if they were out. They happened to release them during a very short window of time in which I didn't go to my email; I never got to have the shirt.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by casenmgreen »

I subscribed to Kagi a month ago.

It's great.

I'd love for BlueSky takes a subscription model, too, so we don't have to think about advertising or sustainability or all that jazz.

Also means the company's interests much more closely aligned with users interests, rather than advertisers interests.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by VHRanger »

haroldship wrote: post #87
louthy wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you outside the US? Q: I can not access Assistant! A: We are doing staged rollout beginning with USA, full rollout scheduled by Sunday, 23:59 UTC. This will include other regions and even the trial plan.

I missed that, thanks. I will try it on Sunday

Should be out globally today actually

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by VHRanger »

KoolKat23 wrote: post #138
cyberpunk wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know how many tokens you've used? Or is it a guesstimate?

And what is the cheapest model to use? Llama 70B?

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llm-benchmark.html

gemini flash, 4o-mini, mistral small for super cheap

qwen-qwq for strong models

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by ericrallen »

aitchnyu wrote: post #101
PKop wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what? His complaint is easily verifiable, and valid:

I jumped on this bandwagon long back for preventing horizontal scrollbars and other issues. Is there an updated advice for allowing zoom and being responsive?

“Allowing zoom” and “being responsive” are not two states at odds with one another.

Preventing zooming is a serious accessibility issue and it makes the content worse for every user.

If you’re properly setting responsive widths, a large enough base font size, large enough input text size, and using border-box for box-sizing, things should just work except for cases where you’re absolutely positioning things or telling them not to word wrap and they are wider than the viewport.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by jillyboel »

i_love_retros wrote: post #145

Kagi are one of my favorite companies. In a world where buying a T-shirt requires me to hand over my phone number ("in case we need to contact you about your order" - yeah, right) I find it so refreshing that kagi barely require any info from me except some form of payment.

The shipping companies seem to demand it from the sender.

But they never use it so just fill in a random number.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by VHRanger »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #124
eitland wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Search isn't getting limited is it? And the GPT features always had some limits.

I'm not paying for search, I'm paying for Unlimited Assistant. No, they did not "have some limits". Or at least, the product they sold me was very clearly labelled "Unlimited". The word "Unlimited" is literally in the name, and it was described as such in more wordly descriptions.

That policy is there because some users were incurring >$500 in AI costs in ultimate.

Out of tens of thousands of users, the top 100 were using 48% of total AI costs.

Kagi is bootstrapped, it can't just hemorrhage money like this the way the VC-subsidized AI startups do

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by lobsterthief »

aitchnyu wrote: post #101
PKop wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what? His complaint is easily verifiable, and valid:

I jumped on this bandwagon long back for preventing horizontal scrollbars and other issues. Is there an updated advice for allowing zoom and being responsive?

There really is no bandwagon to jump onto here—most sites don’t prevent zooming in. Many that do were just misconfigured from the start, and because some popular mobile browsers ignore `maximum-scale=1.0`, the issue isn’t normally identified.

Quick tip: Make sure all of your inputs are at least 16px font size. This will prevent most mobile browsers from “automatically” zooming in when an input is focused ;) Which is a common reason people employ the maximum-scale property.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #109
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They are profitable Citation needed. With this type of company and business model, it's highly unusual to be profitable, so the burden of proof is on those who say it is.

[flagged]

> I can't think of any other consumer SaaS provider that automatically answers my reflexive "how does this make money?" question.

My reply was in response to the above quote and not whether they are currently profitable or not. Besides, a company being profitable at this very moment is actually not that relevant in the long term.

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