Rox(@rox_ai):Introducing ask-web: Rox’s in-house web search agent. ask-web sits on the cost-per-accuracy pareto frontier of the hyper-parameter grid when compared to frontier labs and commercial search agent providers. The agent delivers 91.3% accuracy at 1.03 cents per query on real production prompts. It has been running in production for more than 6 months with continuous evals. Inference partners: @togethercompute, @baseten, @modal Commercial Search vendors benchmarked: @perplexity_ai, @ExaAILabs, @p0. Frontier Search vendors benchmarked: @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI Exa, OpenAI and Anthropic excel on accuracy. Parallel and Perplexity are cost-efficient. Here’s the breakdown:

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Introducing ask-web: Rox’s in-house web search agent. ask-web sits on the cost-per-accuracy pareto frontier of the hyper-parameter grid when compared to frontier labs and commercial search agent providers. The agent delivers 91.3% accuracy at 1.03 cents per query on real production prompts. It has been running in production for more than 6 months with continuous evals. Inference partners: @togethercompute, @baseten, @modal Commercial Search vendors benchmarked: @perplexity_ai, @ExaAILabs, @p0. Frontier Search vendors benchmarked: @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI Exa, OpenAI and Anthropic excel on accuracy. Parallel and Perplexity are cost-efficient. Here’s the breakdown: