Ollama Launches Web Search API to Enhance AI Model Accuracy
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Summary
Ollama has launched a new web search API that provides access to real-time web information to enhance AI models. The service offers a generous free tier for individual users with higher rate limits available through Ollama's cloud platform. The web search capability helps reduce AI hallucinations and improve accuracy by augmenting models with current web data. The API is available as a REST service with deeper integrations in Ollama's Python and JavaScript libraries, enabling models like OpenAI's gpt-oss to perform extended research tasks.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledA new web search API is now available in Ollama.
Ollama provides a generous free tier of web searches for individuals to use, and higher rate limits are available via Ollama's cloud.
This web search capability can augment models with the latest information from the web to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy.
Web search is provided as a REST API with deeper tool integrations in Ollama's Python and JavaScript libraries.
This also enables models such as OpenAI's gpt-oss models to conduct long-running research tasks.
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