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Octen launches 10ms AI search for agents, indexing 201M pages

Octen, a startup founded by a former Alibaba Cloud AI search lead, is enhancing its search service for AI agents. Their Pulse model can find web pages in approximately 10 milliseconds by employing generative retrieval. A 4-billion parameter version of the model is capable of indexing over 201 million pages, with a $20 monthly subscription providing unlimited web searches. AI

IMPACT This new search capability could accelerate AI agent performance by reducing latency in information retrieval.

RANK_REASON This is a product launch from a startup, not a frontier AI lab.

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Octen launches 10ms AI search for agents, indexing 201M pages

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Octen, founded by former Alibaba Cloud AI search lead Kuan Zou, is expanding its search service for AI agents. Its Pulse model locates web pages in about 10 mil

    Octen, founded by former Alibaba Cloud AI search lead Kuan Zou, is expanding its search service for AI agents. Its Pulse model locates web pages in about 10 milliseconds using generative retrieval, with a 4B-parameter version covering 201 million pages. A 20 USD monthly plan offe…