Baseten adds server-side web search for open models, 15% lower latency

baseten · x · 2026-09-17

Baseten launched Hosted Tools and Grounded Inference, bringing real-time server-side web search to open-weight models via a single configuration with partners Exa, Keenable, p0, and You.com — eliminating hand-wired orchestration, extra vendor keys, and per-round-trip latency, with claimed 15% lower latency than client-side execution. You.com also touts its Highlights mode scoring 95.17% on SimpleQA, 35% cheaper than Claude's built-in web search.

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