Show HN: OpenWebSearch – A router for web search indexes

OpenWebSearch, a router for web search indexes, has been launched by Interfaze, a model company. The tool normalizes requests and responses for search indexes like Parallel, Brave, and Exa, offering centralized billing, standardized I/O, fallback support, and cost tracking. Interfaze built it to test whether smaller models (9b or 70b) can match larger ones (300b or 600b) when given web search, citing a paper (arXiv:2203.05115).

Hi HN, I'm one of the people behind OpenWebSearch https://openwebsearch.ai https://openwebsearch.ai . It's a router for web search indexes. You POST to one endpoint with a provider field, and it normalizes both the request and the response for web search indexes like Parallel, Brave, Exa and more Why we built it: we run a model company Interfaze and a lot of our models are smaller in size and we're experimenting if given web search can a smaller 9b or 70b model perform the same as 300b or 600b model and we found that it does extremely better when given web search similar to this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05115 https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05115 but we also found not all web search are built the same, some are better in people search, some better at financial data and others are bio research, etc. Like LLMs, web indexes are becoming commoditized with different indexes having different strengths and weaknesses with access to niche data, performance and cost. Every large model lab including Interfaze has to build their own internal mini-Google for training and eventually launch that index as a service. Some cool features: - Centralized billing - Standardized input and output structure - Fallback support if a provider goes down - Cost tracking Full blog: https://interfaze.ai/blog/introducing-openwebsearch https://interfaze.ai/blog/introducing-openwebsearch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333187 Points: 2 Comments: 0