Show HN: Ceptile AI Search platform which combines web results with AI chat
Ceptile is an AI-powered search platform that combines real-time web results with a conversational chat interface. It synthesizes answers from live web sources and provides verifiable inline citations for factual statements. The service is currently available for free across multiple operating systems and browsers.
- ▪Ceptile functions as both a search engine and an AI chatbot, allowing users to ask natural language questions and receive synthesized answers.
- ▪The platform provides real-time web retrieval with interactive, numbered citations that link directly to the original source URLs.
- ▪Ceptile is accessible online without a paid subscription and supports multi-turn conversations, document uploads, and image analysis.
- ▪The service is designed to handle complex technical and academic queries by evaluating multiple authoritative web sources.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 6,089 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Ceptile AI Search |
| Canonical URL | https://www.ceptile.com/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:10:04 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-23T06:24:30.375Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-23T06:24:30.375Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | yjJR8kGuv60x · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ceptile AI Search.
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