🚀 Major Company Milestones

  • Growth & Anniversary: Kagi celebrated its 3rd anniversary in June and surpassed 50,000 paying subscribers.
  • Community Initiatives: Launched Kagi for Libraries, providing free access to public library patrons worldwide.
  • Global Outreach: The team conducted a trip to Tokyo in April/May to connect with the Japanese community and explore translation partnerships.

🤖 Kagi Assistant (AI)

The Assistant evolved from a premium feature to a core product for all users.

  • Accessibility: Now available to all subscription plans (introduced April 17) under a fair-use token policy.
  • Model Upgrades: Integrated a massive array of top-tier models, including Claude 3.7 Sonnet (with extended thinking), OpenAI o3, Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Mistral models.
  • New Features:
  • Ki: Introduction of a multi-step reasoning assistant.
  • Organization: Added tags for threads, bulk management actions, and customizable default models.
  • UI/UX: Redesigned mobile experience, adjustable sidebars for desktop, and a curated model picker with benchmarking scores.
  • Integration: Now integrates directly with Kagi Lenses to guide AI searches.

🔍 Kagi Search

  • Content Experience: Launched a redesigned News homepage (July 11) and significantly upgraded Video search to include likes/dislikes and integration with PeerTube and TikTok.
  • Power User Tools: Added Regex support for Custom Bangs, allowing for highly precise query splitting and shortcuts.
  • Accessibility: Implemented wide-reaching accessibility upgrades for keyboard and screen reader users.
  • Indexing: Introduced a distinct icon to represent results coming directly from the Kagi-index.

🌐 Kagi Translate

Kagi Translate underwent a massive transformation into a professional-grade tool.

  • New Capabilities: Added Document Translation (.docx, .txt, .csv) and a Proofreading mode with style and repetition analysis.
  • UI Overhaul: Launched a brand-new UI featuring a split-screen view for translating websites (original vs. translated) and audio downloads for translations.
  • Dictionary: Enhanced the dictionary with grammatical gender, synonyms, and usage notes.

🗺️ Kagi Maps

  • Launch: Officially launched the Kagi Maps alpha in June.
  • Improvements: Focused on improving the precision of Point of Interest (POI) interactions and merging information from multiple data sources for more accurate local results.

🦊 Orion Browser

  • Linux Expansion: Officially announced the start of Orion for Linux, with a target date for feature parity with macOS by March 2026.
  • Stability & Extensions: Improved support for critical extensions like uBlock Origin, 1Password, and Bitwarden.

🛡️ Privacy & Android App

  • Privacy Pass: Launched Kagi Privacy Pass (February 13), an IETF-standard protocol that makes searches technically unlinkable to a user's account.
  • Anonymity: Launched a Tor Onion service for secure, anonymous access.
  • Android App: Added homescreen widgets for the Assistant, Translate, and Summarizer, as well as native Privacy Pass support.