Overview
Doubao Search is an AI Agent-specific search service launched by Volcano Engine, designed to provide real-time, authoritative, and trustworthy online information support for intelligent agents. It breaks through the limitations of traditional single retrieval, supporting continuous search, in-depth web page reading, and cross-validation, helping agents dynamically adjust retrieval directions in long-term tasks and transform information into actionable capabilities.
Key Features
- Agent-native adaptation and efficient retrieval: Directly outputs information formats usable by agents, supporting original Markdown and structured data returns; features precise targeted queries, broad search semantic rewriting, and multi-turn retrieval enhancement modes, automatically understanding task intent and filling information gaps.
- Authority grading and trustworthy sources: Establishes an authority grading system from two dimensions: website sites and creators, vertically managing low-quality content by industry; integrates global internet information, industry knowledge, and ByteDance's exclusive resources, filtering invalid information at the source to improve result credibility.
- Multimodal and cross-language queries: Supports cross-language, multimodal, and multi-vertical online information queries, covering text, images, and other forms, meeting deep information needs in complex scenarios.
Use Cases
- AI Q&A and search: Provides an information engine for intelligent assistants of 90% of top domestic mobile phone manufacturers, meeting user knowledge Q&A and real-time retrieval needs.
- Office collaboration: Offers information retrieval, multi-turn search, and context construction for office productivity agents, enhancing fact acquisition and result generation capabilities.
- Financial investment research: Provides real-time, authoritative industry data and research report support for securities investment agents, aiding investment research decisions.
Pros
- Strong real-time performance, supports dynamic retrieval strategy adjustment
- Authority grading of sources, effectively filters low-quality content
- Multimodal and cross-language capabilities, covering a wide range of scenarios
- Excellent performance in multiple public evaluations, outstanding complex retrieval capabilities
Pricing
Specific pricing needs to be obtained by contacting Volcano Engine's business team, supporting on-demand customization and enterprise-level services.
Summary
Doubao Search is a new-generation search service for AI agents, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of information acquisition for intelligent agents in long-term tasks through real-time, authoritative, and trustworthy online capabilities. Its authority grading system, multimodal support, and industry scenario adaptation make it a reliable information engine for enterprises building intelligent applications.
Version History
- Ling-3.0-tiny 正式开源：1.3B 激活参数如何进入真实任务 (2026-08-11): Ant Group's Bailing open-sourced Ling-3.0-tiny, a native hybrid reasoning model with 7.9B total parameters and only 1.3B activated during inference, simultaneously offering BF16, FP8, and INT4 versions.
- 千问全网首发公测，全新 Wan3.0 来了！ (2026-08-06): Alibaba Qwen launches the public beta of its video generation model Wan3.0, with comprehensive upgrades in generation duration, cinematography, character realism, and consistency maintenance. The model supports stable direct output of 30-second one-shot videos, features director-level camera work and montage narration, and emphasizes high consistency in characters, props, and scenes. Wan3.0 focuses on ultra-high cost-effectiveness and is now available for experience on Qwen Creation (c.qianwen.com), with the Qwen app rolling out access gradually.
- 千问开放平台上线：租房、寄快递、查理财等十余领域服务可对话办理 (2026-08-10): Qianwen Open Platform launched today, offering service integration for mobile, PC, and AI glasses terminals to ecosystem partners and developers, with the first batch covering over a dozen fields including logistics and transportation, real estate and housing, local life services, wealth management, and automotive. Users can @ relevant services in conversations or click the "dot badge" to enter the agent, completing the full process from consultation and recommendation to order placement. The platform supports standardized protocol integration, one-click authorization, and end-to-end testing, while providing infrastructure such as accounts, AI payment, and order integration.
- 腾讯混元发布 Hy ASR 3.0 preview：真正懂上下文的语音识别 (2026-08-04): Tencent Hunyuan released the next-generation speech recognition model Hy ASR 3.0 preview, based on the large language model Hy3 and MoE architecture, integrating high-precision recognition with semantic understanding. In open-source evaluation sets, it achieves a Chinese Mandarin WER of 3.34%, English WER of 2.62%, and Cantonese WER of 3.12%, while supporting context-based error correction, hotword injection, and scenarios such as high-noise whispering. The model has been launched on the Tencent Cloud API, with the Yuanbao App as the first release and free access.
- 面壁智能开源 ForgeStencil：一周自动优化 100+ 工业与科学软件，全程零人工介入 (2026-08-04): FaceMind AI, in collaboration with OpenBMB, has open-sourced ForgeStencil, the world's first AI optimization system supporting Stencil automatic research and automatic deployment. Through the closed-loop collaboration of Kernel Agent and App Agent, it achieves a fully automated process from operator optimization to application integration.
- 腾讯混元开源 AngelSpec：投机解码推理加速最高 2.4 倍 (2026-07-29): Tencent Hunyuan open-sourced the speculative decoding framework AngelSpec, covering from training to deployment, and released the MTP and DFly drafter weights and training code for Hy3-A21B.
- 火山引擎上线豆包搜索服务，为AI Agent提供实时可信搜索能力 (2026-07-28): Volcano Engine has officially launched the Doubao Search service, providing AI Agents with cross-language, multimodal, and multi-vertical online information retrieval that integrates comprehensive internet information, industry knowledge, and ByteDance's exclusive content resources. The service establishes an authority grading system based on website domains and creator dimensions, filtering out low-quality information, and performs excellently in benchmarks such as SimpleQA, FreshQA, and BrowseComp-ZH. Doubao Search supports multiple integration forms including API, Skill, and MCP, offering enterprises and developers a free monthly quota of 500 searches.