An important tidbit from their Discord. The AI is just the commercial one from OpenAI. Paying $5 per 50 search summaries for it according to the founder of Kagi.[1] It is not in-house.
But good lord, that's such a dumb, dumb, dumb decision to integrate this thing onto Kagi then
I'll keep my subscription on the 10usd one, but yeah this drops my interest on the company precipitously and rather than just recommend it, I will just not, or do it with a warning that the roi of subscribing is only so-so
1: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/925992877602000967/... (Backup: https://imgur.com/McoRELC )