Yahoo has launched Yahoo Scout, an AI powered answer engine and intelligence platform now in beta for users in the United States. The service integrates with Yahoo Mail, News, Finance, and Sports to deliver AI generated summaries and insights across Yahoo products.
Key details: Yahoo Scout AI answer engine
Yahoo Scout is positioned as an AI powered answer engine that blends traditional web search results with generative models. The beta is currently available to users in the United States. Yahoo describes Scout as a "Classic Search" style interface enhanced with personalized AI responses.
- Yahoo partnered with Anthropic and selected Claude as the primary AI model for Scout.
- Yahoo cites Claude's speed, clarity, judgment, and safety as key reasons for this choice.
- The company continues its collaboration with Microsoft and uses the Microsoft Bing grounding API for web based information.
- Scout combines traditional web search and generative AI, with Bing's API grounding answers in open web content.
- Yahoo reports that Scout draws on 500 million user profiles and a knowledge graph of more than 1 billion entities.
- The company also cites 18 trillion yearly consumer events across Yahoo services as part of Scout's data foundation.
Yahoo says this setup is designed to keep answers tied to authoritative sources rather than unsupported AI generated text. Example use cases include checking vacation weather, following game details, tracking stock prices after earnings, comparing products, and fact checking news stories.
Background context and product integration
Yahoo reports that its combined properties reach about 90% of United States internet users, citing Comscore data. These properties include Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Sports. According to the company, Scout builds on decades of search behavior and user interaction across these products.
The Yahoo Scout Intelligence Platform brings AI features into multiple Yahoo applications. In Yahoo Mail, Scout powers AI generated email summaries. In Yahoo Sports, it generates game breakdowns, and in Yahoo News it surfaces key takeaways from articles.
For Yahoo Finance, Scout supports interactive analysis tools that let users ask questions about stocks and market news. Yahoo says Scout will gain deeper personalization and more capabilities within specific content verticals over the coming months. The company also plans new formats for search advertising designed for generative AI based search experiences.
Eric Feng, Senior Vice President and General Manager, said Yahoo has built a large knowledge base over 30 years. He said this foundation supports guidance users can trust and understand, with personalization expected to increase. Yahoo positions Scout as powering a new generation of intelligence features across everyday Yahoo products.
Source citations and official access points
Yahoo Scout is accessible through a dedicated website and mobile applications, according to the product announcement. Yahoo provides an official Scout web entry point at the scout.yahoo.com domain. Mobile access uses the Yahoo Search app, and the Yahoo Scout app is available for Android and Apple devices through Yahoo's mobile search experience.
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