OCTEN

Octen is an AI-native web search API and infrastructure built from scratch for AI agents (not humans), founded by Kuan Zou (ex-Alibaba/Baidu search lead). It decomposes queries into dozens of sub-queries executed concurrently, returns results in ~62ms (P50), supports 1M+ QPS with strong SLAs, delivers top-tier quality on benchmarks like RTEB and DeepResearch Bench, and costs just $1 per 1,000 calls.