Clarify Ki assistant information

fxgn

People are constantly mentioning the Ki assistant, and yet I see no mention of it in the interface and no way to use it. I assume it's only available on the Ultimate plan (I'm using Professional), but it's very unclear to me. Ki is also not mentioned anywhere in the docs, aside from saying that there's a bang for it.

The UI and docs should explain what Ki is and how to use it.

KamilKurde

KI is still work in progress, so I'd guess that's why there is little-to-no information about it in the docs.
From what I recall, at the moment KI is GPT 4o with a VM and an ability to run Python code.
So apart from generating code, it can also run it to calculate things, do transformations on data and do graphs and tables with such data.

MattM

Ki is a full agent in beta. Ultimate users we're liberally giving them beta keys for it for feedback. Just to correct @KamilKurde above:

It's not a single model, the agent has several sub-models that we swap around to optimize it. There's a top level model, a research response model, they're both configured for different speed / cost / reasoning strengths. Then there's breadth of searches, max iteration depth of searches, relevance filtering, etc. etc.
Research includes access to full tool use:
Ingesting largely any kind of file (images, audio, pdf, excel sheets, python code files, whatever)
Access to web search / maps (directly) / other search providers (think wolfram alpha) / - Image generation / AI image manipulation.
A "think" tool to specifically use stronger reasoning
And more, we're adding tools aggressively.

There's a variation Ki-Code that has a python code sandbox as well, and Ki-Deep-Research.

partlycloudy

The Ki model doesn't appear in the dropdown. How to select it?

Rehan

partlycloudy If you have ultimate, click this link and it'll show up in the dropdown menu: https://kagi.com/flag/assistant_with_ki

nobodywasishere

We will add documentation and make an announcement when Ki is fully released