Karl Henrik Smith

[Karl Henrik Smith @karlhenriksmith]

@ishanmkh @MongoDB @togethercompute @Xbow So cool and exciting to finally see this live!! Early adopters and proponents of CRM back in the day are reaching out and they are especially looking forward to the old stack getting left behind 💡

[Rox @rox_ai]

@AnthropicAI and @OpenAI want your product living inside Claude or ChatGPT. @Google wants the model to redraw your UI from scratch.

Both are wrong about who should own the pixels, since it diminishes beautiful product experiences to basic text.

We measured a 3rd option: up to 100x cheaper, and your product stays whole.

→ Introducing Rox Tether: An alternative to MCP Apps, A2UI, and ChatGPT Apps.

TLDR: the product manages its own pixels, and the agent operates it via reference.

The results:

- Up to 100x token reduction
- No new protocol
- No browser API needed
- No cooperation from the chat host

Breakdown below:

[Karl Henrik Smith @karlhenriksmith]

@rox_ai @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @Google Let's go @taeukkang !!

[Rox @rox_ai]

Introducing ask-web: Rox’s in-house web search agent.

ask-web sits on the cost-per-accuracy pareto frontier of the hyper-parameter grid when compared to frontier labs and commercial search agent providers.

The agent delivers 91.3% accuracy at 1.03 cents per query on real production prompts.

It has been running in production for more than 6 months with continuous evals.

Inference partners: @togethercompute, @baseten, @modal

Commercial Search vendors benchmarked: @perplexity_ai, @ExaAILabs, @p0.

Frontier Search vendors benchmarked: @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI

Exa, OpenAI and Anthropic excel on accuracy. Parallel and Perplexity are cost-efficient.

Here’s the breakdown: