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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 #16

I wonder why the rollout is specifically over the weekend. I'd personally do something like that Monday to Wednesday rather than Friday to Sunday. It seems like the kind of thing that needs monitoring and quick reactions - can easily get expensive if something goes wrong.

Are they really going to need more than a couple people working the weekend to pause/rollback if something goes wrong? It's not like Assistant itself is new, just the broader access is.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

#183
post #12

Anyone used both Kagi assistant and perplexity and can share how was the experience?

I tried both and use Perplexity. Perplexity is much more akin to native ChatGPT in which I can create "spaces" for my projects. For example, I just bought an RV and so I loaded up all of the PDF manuals into a space so the LLM can reference those things. Since a few months ago, Kagi is just thread based.

FYI - I use Kagi every day for standard search and love it.

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> 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.

They are apparently not profitable (yet): > Discord has raised a total of about $1 billion in funding. It has more than $700 million in cash on its balance sheet and the goal to become profitable this year, according to a person familiar with the matter. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-...

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Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

#185
post #117

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Personally, I think it's a bit scummy to expect customers to trawl through T&Cs, when the company gets to sit back and chill, while profiting from using 'unlimited' front and centre. There's a subtle difference between using something for 5 hours per day vs causing the heat death of the unvierse. Metred use, with all parties being informed and honest with wording, is the fair and ethical solution. I absolutely abhor…

> There's a subtle difference between using something for 5 hours per day vs causing the heat death of the universe. Replace 'heat death of the universe' with 'the available funds of the organisation'. Nobody should be so naive to think that any 'unlimited' service is unlimited in the same way as there's an unlimited set of natural-numbers, or any other mathematically pure meaning. There are plenty of words where the…

If no one can offer unlimited then it shouldn't legally be able to make that claim. It's like putting cures cancer on your bread loaf and then changing the terms to say curing cancer means eating wheat; everyone should know it's a lie but it raises sales anyways.

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I can look into it. Can you clarify what you mean? Article zooms in normally for me (Orion browser/iOS).

It's blocked on Firefox on Android. Another comment quoted the meta tag which disables it.

Got it. For some reason Bear Blog defaults to this setting, not easy to change from dashboard it seems.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

#187
post #2

If the staff sees this - please stop preventing zoom. Not only is that bad for accessibility, it makes the article less useful for everyone - there's a screenshot included showing off the feature, but it's too small to read on the phone and I can't zoom in.

I can look into it. Can you clarify what you mean? Article zooms in normally for me (Orion browser/iOS).

Not sure if you mean you work at Kagi, but I also want to add that when opening the Android app, the splash page takes a full second or so to load before the search bar opens, which doesn't sound like much but it makes it harder to habitually use Kagi as my default mobile search.

The Kagi widget technically solves this, but without installing a new launcher I can't replace the native Google search bar with the Kagi one.

Re: Kagi Assistant is now available to all users

#190
post #48

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That looks super complicated. And hard to tell if the cryptography works as intended. Why would I go through all that hassle if I can just type my query directly in other search engines?

Because the other search engines offer no privacy and relentlessly track everything you do across the internet?

Duckduckgo and yandex are search engines.
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