NextSearch-1-M

NextSearch-1-M is the largest of the three NextSearch-1 web research agents: post-trained models that decompose a question, search and fetch from the live web, reconcile conflicting evidence, and return a concise answer or a structured research artifact. They are built to work as the research component inside a larger system — called repeatedly by an orchestrator — where per-call accuracy, tail latency, and cost compound.

Model Base Params
NextSearch-1-M (this repo) Inkling-Small 276B-A12B MoE weights
NextSearch-1-S Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 35B-A3B MoE weights
NextSearch-1-XS Qwen3.5-9B 9B dense weights

Technical report: nexttoken.co/research/nextsearch-1. Harness, evaluation suite, and audited benchmark golds: github.com/NextTokenAI/nextsearch.

Results

Live-web evaluation (August 2026), 12B-active M against frontier API anchors. Benchmarks: SEAL-0 (fresh/conflicting evidence, n=97), FRAMES (multi-constraint retrieval, n=100), DeepSearchQA (comprehensive answer sets, n=100), WideSearch-sub (structured table sub-tasks, n=49), and WideSearch (full tasks under the orchestrated harness, n=20). Best per column in bold.

SEAL-0 FRAMES DeepSearchQA WideSearch-sub WideSearch mean $/ep mean turns
NextSearch-1-M 0.515 0.850 0.803 0.805 0.708 $0.074 5.9
glm-5.2 (355B-A32B) 0.505 0.920 0.790 0.856 0.806 $0.015 7.5
gemini-3.6-flash 0.495 0.880 0.773 0.885 0.712 $0.127 8.8
gpt-5.6-luna-med 0.484 0.820 0.788 0.763 0.742 $0.010 6.9
deepseek-v4-flash 0.474 0.820 0.781 0.682 0.758 $0.029 10.1
nemotron-3-ultra (550B-A55B) 0.423 0.850 0.693 0.760 $0.083 9.3

All rows run under our harness (same tools, prompts, turn budgets, pinned task date) against audited golds with one shared judge — consistent within this table, not comparable to other papers' leaderboards. Protocol, costs, and reproduction: docs/evals.md; full analysis in the technical report.

Quick start

The weights are ~530 GB bf16 — plan for a multi-GPU node (e.g. 8×H200). See the vLLM recipe for Inkling for current serving flags; our serving notes (sampling, context caps, tool-call parsing pitfalls) are in docs/serving.md.

vllm serve NextTokenAI/NextSearch-1-M --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice --max-model-len 65536

Recommended sampling: temperature 0.7, max 16k tokens per turn, reasoning effort 0.7. The model expects a task date in its system prompt and two tools (search, fetch); the exact prompts and tool schemas it was tuned for ship in the harness:

pip install nextsearch && nextsearch-eval run --benches seal0 --models nextsearch-1-m --n 10

License

Released under the Apache License 2.0, as is the base model thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small.

Citation

@techreport{nextsearch1,
  title       = {NextSearch-1: Open models for wide and deep web research},
  author      = {Nitish Kulkarni and Alankar Jain},
  institution = {NextToken},
  year        = {2026},
  url         = {https://nexttoken.co/research/nextsearch-1}
}
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