The article discusses four open-source AI research agents that serve as cost-effective alternatives to OpenAI’s Deep Research AI Agent. These alternatives offer robust search capabilities, AI-powered extraction, and reasoning features, allowing researchers to automate and optimize their workflows without incurring high costs.
Verba is an open-source application designed to offer an end-to-end, streamlined, and user-friendly interface for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) out of the box. It supports various RAG techniques, data types, LLM providers, and offers Docker support and a fully-customizable frontend.
