AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous

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AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research because of the search itself.

Their real problem is not asking the user for clarification when queries are ambiguous.

A new benchmark called DiscoBench shows that models searching repeatedly instead of asking follow-up questions actually perform worse, at 51.9 percent, than those that just guess.

Even the best model only hits 43 percent overall accuracy.

When ambiguity is removed from the queries, accuracy jumps by up to 40 points.

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