For AI agents: docs.octen.ai/resources/changelog.md
July 2026
Model Gateway — Frontier Models with Built-in Search
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
- Start using Model Gateway
- Available to all registered users
June 2026
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
- Start using Image Search
- In invite-only beta. Email support@octen.ai to request access
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
- Start using Video Search
- In invite-only beta. Email support@octen.ai to request access
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
- Start using Multimodal Chat
- In invite-only beta. Email support@octen.ai to request access
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
- Start using Grounded Generation
- In invite-only beta. Email support@octen.ai to request access
News Search — News-Focused Results in Search
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
May 2026
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
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
April 2026
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
- Start using Deep Research
- Available to all registered users
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
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
February 2026
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