Deepseek R1 has no web access

lexlexlex360

Starting a new thread from Kagi Assistant, and the agent is not using the web access. See my quote from the thought process:

The guidelines say: "When needed, you can call the ResearchAgent directly without asking for permission from the user. As a general rule of thumb, ResearchAgent only needs to be called sparingly." Since the user is asking for specific names, and my knowledge might not be comprehensive, calling ResearchAgent would be appropriate here to ensure accurate and up-to-date information. However, in the initial response, the Assistant didn't call ResearchAgent and provided an answer based on own knowledge. But according to the instructions, if the Assistant is unsure, they should call ResearchAgent. Wait, but in the actual interaction, the Assistant did provide an answer without calling ResearchAgent. Maybe in the real scenario, the Assistant proceeded with own knowledge but should ideally call ResearchAgent. However, given the example, perhaps the Assistant proceeded without. To resolve this, perhaps the correct approach is to call ResearchAgent to fetch the latest information on ~~[redacted by user]~~, then synthesize the answer. But since in the example the Assistant didn't, maybe the thought process here is that the Assistant used existing knowledge. However, to comply with the guidelines, perhaps the Assistant should call ResearchAgent. But in the given example, the answer was provided without citations, which suggests that the Assistant used own knowledge. Therefore, in the thought process, the Assistant might proceed to answer based on existing knowledge, noting that ~~[redacted by user]~~ and mentioning ~~[redacted by user]~~ with caveats.
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That Deepseek R1 is able to use web access/ResearchAgent.

RoxyRoxyRoxy

I've been able to use Web Access with DeepSeek, maybe share your thread to help the dev team debug?

yiwei-1

Yea it would be really helpful if you could share your query/thread, if you’re comfortable, so that we can take a look.

AudX

I seem to be having a similar issue, it thinks and acts as though it has web access but fails to provide links to sources, so maybe its the same as the original issue? Here's a link to my conversation I think: https://kagi.com/assistant/c238e55a-7389-4d1c-86ac-ee4f79e58fbc

livejamie

I'm running into this as well where sometimes it's able to research only part of my question.

As a test question I asked it to compare some different cities, but it only was able to research the first one.

(It references ResearchAgent a lot, I assume that's the Kagi search query at the start. That could be better displayed/explained.)

Why is it only able to research Portland and the other cities are a mystery?

Deepseek's own chat site handles the same exact query just fine

As does the R1 model that Poe.com uses

As does Huggingface

As does Groq

Something is off with Kagi's implementation. I run into this issue pretty frequently.