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January 23, 2026
  • Country code filtering: Added country_code support to the DeepResearch API for filtering search results by geography. Both JavaScript and Python SDKs updated.
  • Search relevance improvements: Made some improvements in the Search API for more accurate and contextually relevant results.
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January 16, 2026
  • New Healthcare datasources: Added ChEMBL (2.5M+ compounds), DrugBank (15K+ drugs), Open Targets (60K+ targets), NPI Registry (8M+ healthcare providers), and WHO ICD-10/11 codes (70K+ codes) to the search API.
  • Performance improvements: Improved DeepResearch quality, Batch API reliability, Polymarket data search accuracy, and faster content extraction.
  • Datasources SDK methods: Added datasources() and datasources_categories() methods with category filtering to both JavaScript and Python SDKs.
  • AI SDK Tools: Extended the bioSearch tool to include the new healthcare/life sciences datasources (ChEMBL, DrugBank, Open Targets, NPI Registry, WHO ICD).
  • MCP: Extended valyu_bio_search MCP tool with the new healthcare datasources.
  • AI SDK size presets: Control content size per search result with short, medium, large, or max presets across all 7 AI SDK search tools.
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January 09, 2026
  • New data sources: Added UK rail schedules, legislation, case law, ship tracking, and parliamentary data to expand coverage across transportation, legal, and government domains.
  • Batch API for Deep Research: Process multiple Deep Research tasks efficiently with the new Batch API, including status tracking and progress monitoring for large-scale research operations.
  • Page screenshot capture: The Content API now supports capturing page screenshots for visual content analysis tasks.
  • Enhanced search filtering: New filtering options including date range filtering, source exclusion lists, and category filters give you more control over search results.
  • Model renamed: The “lite” model has been deprecated in favor of “fast” for clearer naming consistency.
  • Datasources API: New tool manifest endpoint, /datasources, that enables AI agents to discover available data sources with metadata, schemas, and pricing information for the Search API.
  • Ship tracking enhancements: Added vessel type filtering (tanker, cargo, cruise, yacht, military, etc.) and natural language search via AIS for global ship tracking.
  • Polymarket historical data: Added historical pricing data from Polymarket prediction markets.
  • Integration guide updates: The AI SDK and MCP integration guides now include datasources tools for discovering available data sources.
  • MCP documentation: Added missing tools documentation for patents, biomedical research, and economics data to the MCP server docs.
  • Deep Research batch quickstart: New quickstart guide for Deep Research batch operations with clearer documentation.
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January 02, 2026
  • Deep Research deliverables (beta): Deep Research can now generate additional files alongside your final report across CSV, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF.
  • TOON output support: Deep Research now supports TOON-formatted output for structured, machine-readable deliverables.
  • Mode renamed: The “Lite” Deep Research mode has been renamed to “Standard” to better reflect its balanced speed and depth.
  • Clearer reasoning summaries: The reasoning trace now includes more concise, readable summaries so you can quickly understand how Deep Research arrived at its conclusions.
  • Claude Agent SDK integration: New guide for building AI agents with Valyu’s search capabilities using the Claude Agent SDK.
  • SDK updates: All SDKs (Python, JavaScript, Rust) have been updated to reflect the latest API changes, including new export formats and TOON output support.
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December 26, 2025
  • Breaking change: The /v1/deepresearch/tasks/{id}/update endpoint now enforces phase-aware validation. This means that follow up instructions are rejected once the writing phase begins. Update your integrations to submit all follow-up instructions during the active research phase, before report generation starts.
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December 19, 2025
  • We launched Valyu AgentCore to bring Valyu’s search capabilities to AWS Bedrock AgentCore and Strands Agents. Check out our co-founders Harvey and Hirsh on the AWS Let’s Build A Startup Podcast w/ the legend Giuseppe Battista showing what it can do 👉 Podcast link.
  • We shipped a new Academic research Guide showing how to use the Vercel AI SDK with Valyu’s AI SDK tools.
  • We’ve added biomedical and economic search tools: valyu_bio_search, valyu_economics_search to the Valyu MCP server.
  • We shipped a new “Powered by Valyu” badge. Users can now show off their Valyu-powered apps with this badge.
  • We added deepresearch API support to the Rust SDK.
  • We’ve migrated the v1/deepsearch API endpoint to v1/search. We recommend updating your API calls accordingly. The v1/deepsearch endpoint will remain supported until April 30, 2026.
  • The deepresearch API now support search configs (included_sources, search_type).
  • Deep Research can now generate detailed charts (line, bar, horizontal bar, area, pie, doughnut, radar, scatter).
  • Deep Research PDF generation has been improved, displaying charts/tables as well.
  • The new deepresearch modes - Fast, Standard and Heavy are now supported in the JS & Python SDKs.
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December 12, 2025
  • We shipped a better numbered citation system for both Search and Deep Research results.
  • Our Content API now automatically extracts content from PDF URLs.
  • We’ve now improved token/context handling for the Answers API endpoint for more predictable performance.
  • We enhanced Deep Research system prompts for better research quality.
  • We’ve added Kalshi and Polymarket prediction markets as a data source so you can search over them in natural language.
  • We made some improvements on API key propagation in our infrastructure.
  • We made two big changes to our N8N Integration. 1. We added the Answers and DeepResearch API to the N8N node. 2. “Search” is now “Search”, “Contents” is now “Extraction”.
  • We’ve now added complete documentation for the Rust SDK with examples for Search, Contents, and Answers endpoints.
  • We shipped complete documentation for LangChain-JS integration with code examples.
  • We’ve also added a Rust SDK documentation.
  • We now have an examples page showcasing real world apps built on Valyu.
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December 5, 2025
  • We’ve localized deepresearch summaries to the user’s language preference.
  • We made improvements to the deepresearch report format.
  • We improved the German labor statistics search quality.
  • We enhanced Deep Research prompts for research and writing phases with better context passing.
  • We updated the /listtasks endpoint to list for Deep Research.
  • We added the enterprise API usage plan.
  • We improved the contents API to have more concise AI summaries.
  • We fixed structured output generation for Deep Research reports.
  • We updated the answers endpoint response to use tx_id instead of ai_tx_id and also added a extraction_metadata type.
  • We added source filtering support to the AI SDK web Search tool.
  • We updated transport type handling and dependencies for Valyu remote mcp.
  • We added a complete implementation guide for Deep Research with SDK examples.
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November 28, 2025
  • We implemented streaming support for real-time content delivery for the answer endpoint.
  • We improved response generation for the answer endpoint.
  • We improved citation structure in answer endpoint responses.
  • We fixed missing titles in contents API with high extract effort setting.
  • We added new financial datasets - Commodities, ETFs, and funds datasets.
  • We improved content extraction with image URLs support.
  • We added streaming support for the answer endpoint in the JS & Python SDKs.
  • We added structured output format for Deep Research.
  • We added full DeepResearch API support with task management to the JS & Python SDK.
  • We updated API reference across Python and JavaScript SDK docs for answer endpoint.
  • We updated pricing documentation to reflect new datasets.
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November 21, 2025
  • Support for up to 100 search results (upon request) in the JS & Python SDKs.
  • Added news search type for dedicated news searches in the JS & Python SDKs.
  • Added urlOnly search type to return shortened snippets only in the JS SDK.
  • Added url_only parameter to return shortened snippets only in Python SDK.
  • publication_date field now available in search results in the Python SDK.
  • relevance_score field now optional in fast_mode or url_only searches.
  • Added docs for news search, url_only, and expanded result limits.
  • Added docs for the updated API reference with the new endpoints and parameters.
  • max_num_results now supports 1 - 100 results. Standard API keys support 1-20 results while higher limits require requesting a special API key through the platform dashboard.
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November 14, 2025
  • We enhanced response formatting for the answer endpoint.
  • We fixed handling of concurrent citation contexts in research results.
  • We updated the JS SDK name from valyu to valyu-js.
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November 7, 2025
  • Bug fixes.