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title: "AI search & research agents for beginner learners"
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# AI search & research agents for beginner learners

[Beginner](/ai-search-research-agents/beginner/index.md) [Intermediate](/ai-search-research-agents/intermediate/index.md) [Advanced](/ai-search-research-agents/advanced/index.md) [Expert](/ai-search-research-agents/expert/index.md)

19 resources · page 1 of 1

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### [AI-Scientist-v2](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/ai-scientist-v2/index.md)

by [Sakana AI](https://sakana.ai/)

Sakana AI-Scientist-v2 GitHub repo: agentic tree-search system for workshop-level automated science.

entity repo Japan en 

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### [Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time (VRT)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/ebu-bbc-news-integrity-study-ai-assistants-misrepresent-news-45-of-the-time-vrt/index.md)

by [VRT](https://www.vrt.be/)

VRT summary of the EBU/BBC study finding AI assistants misrepresented news content in 45% of answers across 21 broadcasters.

entity benchmark EU (multi-country) en 

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### [@ExaAILabs (Exa)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/exaailabs-official-x/index.md)

by [Exa](https://x.com/ExaAILabs)

X account of Exa: updates on its AI search engine and web search API for agents.

entity x-account US 

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### [GigaChat](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/gigachat/index.md)

by [Sber (GigaChat)](https://giga.chat/)

GigaChat: Sber's Russian-language AI assistant for answering questions, writing text and code and generating images.

entity company RU ru 

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### [@KagiHQ (Kagi)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/kagihq-official-x/index.md)

by [Kagi](https://x.com/KagiHQ)

X account of Kagi: updates on its ad-free search engine, browser and AI assistant products.

entity x-account US 

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### [Kimi (search)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/kimi-search/index.md)

by [Moonshot AI (Kimi)](https://www.moonshot.ai/)

Kimi: Moonshot AI's assistant for chat, search, agentic coding and knowledge work, built on its K-series models.

entity company CN zh 

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### [Metaso 秘塔AI搜索](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/metaso-ai/index.md)

by [Metaso (秘塔AI搜索)](https://metaso.cn/)

Metaso: Chinese ad-free AI search engine that returns cited answers.

entity company CN zh 

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### [Open Deep Research (LangChain)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/open-deep-research-langchain/index.md)

by [LangChain](https://www.langchain.com)

LangChain open_deep_research GitHub repo: open-source deep research agent.

entity repo US en 

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### [@perplexity_ai (Perplexity)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/perplexity-ai-official-x/index.md)

by [Perplexity](https://x.com/perplexity_ai)

X account of Perplexity: product updates for its AI answer engine and Comet browser.

entity x-account US 

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### [Perplexity GitHub](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/perplexity-github/index.md)

by [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/)

Perplexity GitHub organisation: open-source projects and SDKs from Perplexity.

entity org US en 

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### [@phindsearch (Phind)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/phindsearch-official-x/index.md)

by [Phind](https://x.com/phindsearch)

X account of Phind: updates on its AI answer engine for technical questions.

entity x-account US 

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### [Scite](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/scite/index.md)

by [Scite](https://scite.ai/)

Scite: AI research tool searching scholarly articles and showing whether citations support or dispute claims.

entity company US en 

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### [SearXNG](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/searxng/index.md)

by [SearXNG.org](https://searxng.org)

SearXNG GitHub repo: free metasearch engine aggregating results from many search services.

entity repo US en 

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### [STORM (Stanford)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/storm-stanford/index.md)

by [Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab](https://oval.cs.stanford.edu)

Stanford STORM GitHub repo: LLM system that researches a topic and writes a cited report.

entity repo US en 

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### [@tavilyai (Tavily)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/tavilyai-official-x/index.md)

by [Tavily](https://x.com/tavilyai)

X account of Tavily: updates on its search API for AI agents.

entity x-account US 

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### [Undermind](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/undermind/index.md)

by [Undermind](https://undermind.ai/)

Undermind: AI literature-search tool that reads full papers and figures to find and cite relevant research.

entity company US en 

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### [How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists-ai-in-scholarly-publishing-threatens-integrity/index.md)

by [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists](https://thebulletin.org/)

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article on how AI use in scholarly publishing affects research integrity and trust.

Beginner learning_resource blog US en 

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### [Consensus blog](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/consensus-blog/index.md)

by [Consensus](https://consensus.app/)

Consensus blog with product updates and posts on AI-assisted search of scientific research.

Beginner learning_resource blog US en 

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### [Why I Killed Our AI Search Product With 5 Million Users? (Genspark)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/genspark-why-i-killed-our-ai-search-product-with-5-million-users-2025-04-04/index.md)

by [Genspark](https://genspark.ai/)

Genspark founder's post explaining why the company shut down its AI search product to focus on agents.

Beginner learning_resource blog US en 

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