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Shipped 2026-04-03 · AI Bird is best when grounded in your own notes. But research questions don’t always stay inside your workspace — sometimes you need a published method, a recent paper, or a parameter from a public database. Bird can now reach those sources and bring them back with citations.

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What’s new

  • Web search tool — when a question requires external information, Bird searches the web and uses the results to answer.
  • Inline citations — every fact pulled from the web is numbered and linked back to its source. You see exactly where each piece of the answer came from.
  • Unified citation format — citations from your workspace and citations from the web are formatted the same way, so you can scan an answer and immediately see what’s grounded in your data versus the broader literature.

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How it works

Bird decides per question whether to search the web. Most workspace questions stay inside your workspace; questions that involve unfamiliar methods, recent results, or external standards trigger a web search. The distinction is visible in the citation list at the end of every response.

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Why this matters

Without citations, AI answers are guesses with confidence. With citations, they become a research starting point — you can read the source, decide whether it applies, and adapt accordingly.