AI Gateway offers built-in web search capabilities that permit AI fashions to access current data from the web.
This is useful if you want up-to-date information that is probably not within the mannequin's training knowledge. Search for all suppliers: Use Perplexity Search, Exa Search, or Parallel Search with any model no matter provider. This offers you constant internet search behavior throughout completely different fashions.
Provider-particular search: Use native net search tools from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI. These instruments are optimized for their respective suppliers and may provide extra features. The perplexitySearch software can be used with any mannequin regardless of the mannequin supplier or creator.
This makes it a flexible possibility once you need constant internet search behavior throughout totally different fashions, or when you need to make use of web search with a mannequin whose supplier does not offer native web search capabilities. To make use of Perplexity Search, import gateway from ai and go gateway.tools.perplexitySearch() to the instruments parameter.
When the mannequin needs current data, it calls the instrument and AI Gateway routes the request to Perplexity's search API.