search-agents

Chinese lab AllSpark has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-weight search agents built on Qwen3 models that claim the top spot among open-weight systems in their size classes on four research benchmarks. The release includes model weights, an agent harness, and evaluation code, with training pipelines to follow.

Google has started rolling out information agents, the first type of Search agents announced at I/O 2026, exclusively for AI Ultra subscribers. The feature monitors blogs, news, social media, and real-time data sources 24/7 to deliver synthesized updates when conditions match user-specified queries.