Over the past few years, AI has been the biggest trend in the tech industry, and nearly every major tech company has started adding AI features to its products and services. While ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and others are competing fiercely, an old player has now joined the race. Yahoo today announced Yahoo Scout, a new AI-powered answer engine.
Yahoo Scout sits somewhere between a traditional search engine and a modern AI chat interface. When users enter a query in Yahoo Scout, they receive an answer in an intuitive format that includes rich media, structured content (including lists and tables), and transparent source links. Responses are generated using information from the open web, along with Yahoo data and Yahoo content.
Yahoo also announced the Yahoo Scout Intelligence Platform, which will power AI experiences across Yahoo Mail, News, Finance, Sports, and more:
- Yahoo Shopping: Scout can handle shopping research that would typically take hours, summarizing reviews and product capabilities to help shoppers make an informed decision.
- Yahoo Finance: Scout will offer one-click access to real-time insights, including company news, analyst ratings, financials, and earnings calls.
- "More from Yahoo Scout": This new Yahoo Finance feature turns everyday market news into an interactive research experience, letting users dig deeper through AI-powered questions and explore key takeaways, stock performance context, and broader market implications.
- Yahoo News: Comment Summaries are available within select articles on the Yahoo homepage.
Yahoo has not developed its own LLM to power Scout. Instead, it has partnered with Anthropic, using Claude as Scout’s primary foundational model. For the latest web content, Yahoo Scout will use Microsoft Bing’s grounding API.
Yahoo Scout is rolling out in beta at Scout.Yahoo.com and in the Yahoo Search app on iOS and Android in the U.S.
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