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September 2026

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News Search — A Dedicated News API

Date: September 20, 2026 Introducing News Search, a dedicated endpoint for live news. It returns ranked articles with highlights, images, and optional full content, and groups related coverage into subjects, each carrying a summary, a representative article, and its sub-events. Highlights Try It Now

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Model Gateway — Video Generation API

Date: September 16, 2026 Model Gateway now generates video. Send a prompt to /v1/videos, optionally guided by reference images, then poll /v1/videos/{id} for the finished file. Highlights Try It Now

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August 2026

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Broad Search & Web Search — Free Full Content

Date: August 26, 2026 The full content of the first 10 results per search is now free. Only results beyond that are billed, at $0.5 per 1,000 results. Try It Now

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Extract — Native PDF and Page Labels

Date: August 22, 2026 Extract now reads PDFs natively and labels every result with what the page is. Highlights Try It Now

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July 2026

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Multimodal Deep Research — Reports with Text, Images, and Videos

Date: July 30, 2026 Introducing Multimodal Deep Research: research reports that combine text with images and videos relevant to each finding, available as the new pro-visual tier. Highlights Try It Now
  • Try it in the Octen console and switch to pro-visual
  • Available to all registered users

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Broad Search & Web Search — Language Filter

Date: July 27, 2026 Broad Search and Web Search now accept a language parameter that restricts results to the specified languages. It is also available in Answer and the Model Gateway search tools. Try It Now

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Web Search — Promotional Pricing

Date: July 16, 2026 Web Search is now $1 per 1,000 calls, an 80% discount off the $5 list price, applied automatically to your usage. Broad Search is billed at the same Search API call rate and gets the same discount. Try It Now
Date: July 1, 2026 Introducing Model Gateway, a new API that serves frontier models with built-in search tools and image generation. Highlights Try It Now

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June 2026

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Image Search — Search the Web for Images

Date: June 24, 2026 Introducing Image Search, a new API that searches the web for images from a text query or a reference image, now in invite-only beta. Highlights Try It Now

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Video Search — Search the Web for Videos

Date: June 24, 2026 Introducing Video Search, a new API that searches the web for videos from a text query, now in invite-only beta. Highlights Try It Now

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Multimodal Chat — Chat with Text, Images, and Videos

Date: June 24, 2026 Introducing Multimodal Chat, a new application that replies with interleaved text, images, and videos, now in invite-only beta. Highlights Try It Now

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Grounded Generation — Generate Images and Videos from Real Content

Date: June 24, 2026 Introducing Grounded Generation, a new application that generates grounded images and videos, now in invite-only beta. Highlights Try It Now
Date: June 12, 2026 Introducing News Search, a new topic that returns news-focused results for current events, headlines, announcements, and time-sensitive reporting, including images and videos from the articles. Highlights Try It Now
  • Start using Search with topic: "news"
  • Available to all registered users

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May 2026

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Extract API — Clean, LLM-Ready Content from URLs

Date: May 29, 2026 Introducing Extract API, a new API that turns URLs into clean, structured content ready for LLM applications, agents, and knowledge ingestion pipelines. Highlights Try It Now
  • Start using Extract API
  • Available to all registered users

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VL Embedding — Multimodal Embeddings for Text, Images, and Videos

Date: May 15, 2026 Introducing VL Embedding, a new API that delivers high-quality multimodal embeddings for retrieval, with SOTA performance on MMEB-v2. Highlights Try It Now
  • Start using VL Embedding
  • Available to all registered users

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April 2026

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Deep Research — Autonomous Multi-Step Research Agent

Date: April 21, 2026 Introducing Deep Research, a new showcase that autonomously plans, explores, and synthesizes information across the web to produce in-depth, well-cited research reports on complex topics. Highlights Try It Now

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Broad Search — Rebuilding search for LLMs

Date: April 2, 2026 Introducing Broad Search, a new showcase that automatically decomposes complex questions into multiple sub-queries, searches them concurrently, and synthesizes a comprehensive answer. Highlights Try It Now
  • Start using Broad Search
  • Available to all registered users

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March 2026

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Octen Public Beta — Open to All Users

Date: March 15, 2026 Octen is now open to everyone! We’ve moved from invite-only to a full public beta. What’s New Getting Started
  • Head to octen.ai to create your account

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February 2026

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Octen Beta Now Open

Date: February 10, 2026 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Octen Beta! Starting today, selected developers can access our powerful AI infrastructure APIs. What’s Included Getting Started Join our waitlists to get early access:
  • Email support@octen.ai to apply
  • We’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis

Last modified on September 20, 2026