AI Agents7 min readJanuary 8, 2025
Web Grounding: Making AI Agents Factually Accurate
Real-time web search integration prevents hallucinations and ensures your AI agents provide accurate, up-to-date information.
The Hallucination Problem
AI agents are powerful, but they have a critical flaw: they make things up.
When an LLM doesn't know something, it might:
- Invent fake statistics
- Create non-existent companies
- Hallucinate news events
- Provide outdated information
This is catastrophic for:
- Financial trading agents
- Research assistants
- Customer support bots
- Market analysis tools
What is Web Grounding?
Web grounding (or RAG - Retrieval Augmented Generation) connects AI to real-time information sources:
The Process
- Query: Your agent asks a question
- Search: API searches 12+ web sources
- Ground: LLM uses search results as context
- Answer: Response is based on real data, not training data
Why It Matters
Grounded responses are:
- Accurate: Based on real sources
- Current: Uses up-to-date information
- Cited: Can reference source material
- Verifiable: Can be fact-checked
Deep Research API Grounding
Our API provides real-time web grounding with:
12+ Sources Per Query
We search multiple sources to ensure comprehensive coverage:
- News articles
- Company websites
- Financial reports
- Academic papers
- Social media
- Press releases
Real-Time Indexing
Our search index is continuously updated:
- Breaking news: < 5 minutes
- Stock prices: < 1 minute
- Product releases: < 10 minutes
- Research papers: < 1 day
Citation Support
Every response includes source references:
{
"answer": "Tesla's market cap is $850B...",
"sources": [
{
"url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/...",
"title": "Tesla Market Cap",
"published": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z"
}
]
}
Use Cases
Financial Agents
const stockData = await deepResearch({
query: "AAPL current stock price",
schema: {
price: "number",
change: "number",
volume: "number"
}
})
// Real-time, accurate stock data
Research Assistants
const research = await deepResearch({
query: "Latest developments in AI regulation",
mode: "extract",
extract: ["key_regulations", "timeline", "implications"]
})
// Comprehensive, cited research
Customer Support
const answer = await deepResearch({
query: "How to reset API key?",
context: userDocumentation
})
// Accurate, up-to-date answers
Get Started
Eliminate hallucinations with real-time web grounding.
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