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Can someone here explain how a solo developer can use bing API. It seems the cost is not cheap, even for basic plan. "1,000 transactions free per month for all markets"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing

Thats like 30-searches per day (including any tweaking). How can a solo developer make an MVP based on this?

So this project can be summarized in a single HTTP request that takes a prompt, puts some bing results in it, and shows it to the user?

No, we read the websites returned by the web results, feed that into our large language models, and generate an answer based on that.

So this is not based on OpenAI? You have your own language models?

We use a combination of our own language models + OpenAI.

Then why it is saying "Was this answer better than Google?"

Google is still what most people use and our biggest hurdle is getting people to consider using something else. So that's what we compare ourselves to.

Interestingly, the very existence of the new Bing does us a favor in this regard -- it warms people up to the idea of using something other than Google, even if it's just for a subset of searches.