What is Cloudflare Web Search API?

AI language models are trained once and then frozen, so they only know what existed before their knowledge cutoff date, which makes them hard to use for recent events or changing software. A common remedy is to retrieve outside information and hand it to the model along with the question. Cloudflare Web Search API is a service for that step: an application or AI agent sends a search query and gets back a list of results, each with a URL, a title and sometimes a description, which can be added to the model's context. Cloudflare describes it as running through its AI Gateway and offering the search providers Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup behind one common result format.

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