Conducting deep web searches and gathering sources is one of the main things I’ve been using LLMs for. How far away are we from being able to self-host something like Claude’s web search capabilities? Or even just a service where I’d pay with my money instead of my data?
I do this today.
Reasonable options are the Brave Search API (free/paid) and SearXNG (self hosted).
Then you need a harness like Opencode or Pi Agent that can use these search engines.