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⏳ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction to OpenAI Deep Research & Free Alternatives
01:02 - Scira: Open Source AI Search & Deep Research Tool
03:11 - Demo of Scira’s Cloud Version & Key Features
05:28 - Testing Scira’s Deep Research vs. OpenAI’s $200/month Tool
08:05 - How to Self-Host Scira & Configure API Keys
12:27 - Running Scira Locally & Testing Deep Research with Claude 3.5
14:26 - Comparing Scira to Other Open Source & Paid AI Research Tools
16:25 - Stride AI Academy & AI Business Solutions
Transcript
all right guys so I've been using the
chat GPT Pro deep research feature and
it is quite frankly insane to say the
least now the only issue is it's behind
a $200 per month pay wall now if you
don't know about deep research by open
aai it essentially does PHD level
research and it can take anywhere from 4
minutes to 20 minutes and we've been
doing some deep Dives on some different
open-source alternatives on this channel
within the last 4 days we did four
different videos one is on open source
deep research which is a CLI tool the
other was web UI which is made by
browser use and has deep researching
capabilities and then the other was
another rapper which is a gooey
front-end interface to open- Source deep
research and I did a video yesterday
actually doing a comparison step by step
showing you how to set these all up as
well as testing these open source models
between open AIS deep research now right
after I made this video I actually came
across another potential alternative to
open AI deep research and yes it is open
source now some of you who've been
following this channel may have seen me
cover different perplexity Alternatives
like open perplex llm answer engine
perplex and we also covered mini perplex
a month ago now mini perplex is actually
rebranded to Circa and it is a
minimalistic AI search engine that helps
you find information on the Internet
it's powered by the forel AI SDK and you
can search with models like grock 2.0
deep seek R1 as well as many different
other ones now with this new Rebrand
they also included a new deep research
feature which is pretty incredible and
in today's video I'm going to show you
how you can use their Cloud version 100%
for free or you can self-host it in the
next 5 minutes in a very very simple way
use your own API keys and you'll be able
to do deep research without having to
pay $200 a month let's dive right into
it all right guys so all links I cover
in today's video will be linked down
below so here we are on the GI Hub repo
now to quickly go over circuit here we
can see that it's powered by versel AI
SDK as well as tab AI for search
grounding and web search capabilities
now a few features it has AI powered
search web search URL specific search
weather programming Maps YouTube search
academic search expost search flight
tracker trending movies and TV shows
movie or TV show search and then llms
used XI Gro anthropic CLA 3.5 meta llama
3.3 70b deep seek R1 distilled by Grog
so you can leverage their fast inference
time chips open AI 03 mini and it's
built with nextjs twin CSS shadsy Nui
versel EXA AI tavali open Weather e Tob
Google Maps mapbox Trip Advisor an
aviation stack and you can simply just
Deploy on versell if you want you could
click this deploy button and you would
just have to Simply go through the steps
very simple to deploy on verell but I'm
actually going to be showing you how to
do this locally okay so if you want to
deploy on verell simply just click this
button walk through the steps of course
make sure you have aell account and then
you'll be good to go now before I
actually go through the local
installation of skura I want to show you
their actual Cloud hosted version so if
you go to skura doapp I'll leave a link
down below you'll see that they have
their Cloud version right here and you
can actually start using this without
having to put your own API key in so you
can actually do deep research or
perplexity type search 100% for free so
I'll walk you through some of the
features here so here we have web so
search across the entire internet this
is going to be something similar to
perplexity then we have X so search xost
this is powered by EXA and then analysis
so code stock and currency stuff fun so
talk to Gro like a digital friend
academic so search academic papers
powered by EXA YouTube so search YouTube
videos in real time time Power by EXA so
very powerful extreme so this is where
the Deep research functionality comes in
so deep research with multiple sources
and Analysis we're going to test out
that in just a second and then here you
can switch from grock 2.0 to grock 2.0
Vision we have clad sonit 3.5 and then
we have aama 3.3 70b and deep seek R1
distilled so just to show you an example
here we could say Gro 2.0 and if we're
doing a basic web search you could type
something in of course I'm just going to
click on one of the trending questions
right here so RFK Jr confirmation and
you can see it's doing a search query
right now that is similar to perplexity
it's doing one now two then three
queries and you can see the queries that
it used RFK Junior confirmation 2025 the
latest um all that good stuff and we can
see the actual websites right here which
is really nice so found 10 different
results and we can see some pictures
right here and then we can see our
answer okay so background on the
confirmation all right keep points here
political reactions all that good stuff
and of course you have suggested
questions here so you can just click
these and have full up question so very
similar to perplexity and of course this
is for free now if we want to use deep
research we can simply just click on
Extreme right here and then we can ask
it a question so I'm going to say open
AI deep research Making Waves in the AI
industry what does this mean for the
future of business Ai and research and
is it worth 200 bucks per month let's go
ahead and click Send all right so you
can see here that it is actually
conducting its research plan right here
okay so we can see in progress we can
see Zero steps out of 15 Steps have been
completed so far so one is now in
process so we can see that it is
searched right here for open AI deep
research impact in business and then now
it's searching academic papers right
here so we have archive paper right here
now it's doing a different query right
here AI industry changes due to open AI
doing another query right here another
one right here so we can see all the
different queries that doing right here
and this is really good because you know
this is this is exactly how uh opening
eyes deep research looks kind of when
you're doing a a query it's going to
search many different queries for many
different sources and you're going to be
able to get those citations in your uh
actual results now it's analyzing impact
analysis analyzing ethical impact
analysis right here the cost benefit
analysis has been completed if we open
up this analysis right here we can see
what it took from the different
learnings from the sites that it got and
how it's actually forming its uh
analysis and then competitive analysis
has been completed and if we go down now
we can see our answer right here we can
see our sources so we can see web
sources right here we we have uh 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 different sources
which is really good and then academic
sources we have a bunch of different
academic sources as well and then we can
see the analysis based on these
learnings so it's a really nice user
interface and guey I really like how it
actually goes about doing this deep
research and now we can see our answers
so introduction you know giving it
introduction about this impact on
business CH changes in the AI industry
research contributions value proposition
at $200 us per month controversies and
ethical concerns and then conclusion
okay so one thing I noticed that you
know it doesn't have that deep research
has and a lot of the other open source
Alternatives I showed p is having the
citations at the bottom open AI deep
research also has the citations within
the article that it's writing which is
really nice but a lot of them just
include them at the bottom which this
one doesn't it does have the citations
up here but it uh makes it a little bit
harder if you wanted to copy and paste
the citation somewhere so that's one
thing I will say now the cool thing is
you can do deep research here with Gro
2.0 2.0 Vision as well as Claude sonit
3.5 so if you want to use a powerful
model like Claud at 3.5 with something
like deep research you can go ahead and
do so and I'm going to show you that in
just a second now that we got that out
of the way let's go ahead and talk about
self-hosting this deploying it locally
so first things first you're going to
need to sign up for the accounts with
the AI providers you want to use open
aai and anthropic are required as well
as Tav is required for the web search
feature okay you're going to want to
obtain these API keys for each provider
and then set the required environment
variables as shown in the env. example
we're going to get to that in just a
second but in a new file called env.
looc or justv Okay so let's go ahead
first things first is we're going to
want to clone this repository so you're
going to change directory into wherever
you want to clone that repository and
then you're going to run get clone and
then the repo URL once you run that it's
going to clone Circa and then you're
going to CD into that directory so CD
SRA and then I personally just ran code
dot because I like opening it in
something like the vs code or cursor so
if we open up my vs code right here you
will have a env. example file now I'll
walk you through this because it did
take me a couple tries just to make sure
everything was right here so um a few
API keys that I put are the ones where
you see that it's kind of like has some
stuff here like I put a x a API key
right here I didn't put Azure I didn't
put you know these ones where it says
XXX I didn't put an actual API key this
is dummy data but when you actually run
mpm run Dev it's going to do a
validation um so it's easier just if you
put some dummy data here when you
actually open up your EnV file it's just
going to look like this when you get it
from the repo okay so make it look like
mine the one that I'm showing you right
now where there's dummy data for the
ones that you're not using okay so I put
my actual open AI API key here I put my
anthropic API key right here and then
this is dummy data I put my Gro API key
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you can see I did it for like 11 Labs
you did it for tavali here I did it for
EXA I did it for fir craw you don't need
every single one of these but some of
these are mandatory I believe the models
like they mention our mandatory I think
EXA or tavali I believe one of those is
um I think tavali is EXA maybe or maybe
not I don't think you need 11 Labs I
don't think you need fir crawl um if you
do need specific ones it will let you
know but if you don't you can probably
just put x's in a lot of them like I did
here and then down here put XXX for all
these ones now for the up stash Rus rest
URL you're going to need to put actual
URL but this is just a fake one so you
could just copy the one I have right
here or put in whatever um this one
works though and then same thing for the
the next public post hog host URL right
here it's simply just the dummy URL but
you need an actual URL um format for
those two and then the rest can just be
dummy data and your actual API Keys once
you do that you're going to want to
actually save this and then you're going
to want to run pnpm installed to install
the different dependencies once those
dependencies are all installed then
you're going to want to run PNP runev
now you'll see here the first time I ran
it I didn't have the dummy um variables
for the EMV variables I wasn't using so
as you can see it says string must
contain at least one character so then I
fixed it and um then it actually
launched on Local Host Port 3000 so you
can see here mine's launched on 3004
just cuz I already have some other apps
running but now we have our local
version of surup so this will be able to
do all the same functionality that we
showed you in the cloud version of
course if you don't have certain API
Keys plugged in then you may or may not
be able to access certain llms or
certain features here okay let's go
ahead again to the extreme because we're
you know really T focusing on the open
ai's deep research capabilities right
now and let's go ahead and try something
like Claude Sonet 3.5 okay so our query
here is AI agents affecting business
growth in 2025 in-depth research and
Trends to Showcase how it will disrupt
Industries we're using claic 3.5 with
deep research and we're going to go and
click on send all right so now we can
see it has started its query and it is
started its research process right here
so developing the research plan once
again okay so it's at three steps of 16
and you can see that it's going through
that actual process right here which is
nice that we can see this history as
well all right so we can see all the
different queries that it did here and
now we can see our web sources here got
12 more academic sources 12 more as well
you can see our analysis so it did a
really good in-depth job it seems and
okay look so we you can actually see if
we hover over here it does show the
sources which is really nice I like when
it does that we can see the evolution of
AI agents in business industry
disruption and transformation strategic
integration and decision making right
here okay so this is actually I think a
little bit better than the first one
looks like it grabbed some McKenzie's
analysis reveals that blah blah blah
blah blah so pulling actual um you know
Trends and whatnot that we're seeing
different uh research papers and whatnot
so this is good with Statistics so all
in all pretty good output and it did a
good amount of steps and a lot of
different research so uh this is
something I will definitely experiment
more with I think it's really cool and
useful that they have a cloud version 2
which is 100% for free you don't have to
plug in your API keys or anything so
definitely try this one out now a lot of
you may be wondering where it lies in
the comparison between one some of these
open- Source researching agents as well
as the actual open AI deep research
first of all I would recommend checking
out this comparison if you really want
in-depth um comparison between all of
those models but I would say it's pretty
good it has a really good UI um in terms
of the quality of output like if I'm
really need something that's very
topnotch I probably would opt for me
personally just cuz you know I I
personally think I get the highest
quality output from open AI $200 a month
one so I probably use that but in terms
of the open source ones um this one
right here uh with the gooey wrapper is
really good quality output I got got web
UI is good too but it didn't ask me
followup questions so you want in-depth
comparisons between all that you can
check out that video here and now that
I'm mentioning it this one as well it
didn't doesn't seem like it asks you
followup questions to your initial query
which opening eyes does as well as some
of the other open source ones that I
covered so a few different things there
you know I think that definitely can
make the uh deep research a little bit
better because it gives the AI more
context um so those are a few things
there but let me know what your thoughts
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