We got early access to Reddit Answers. It was about as accurate as the average Redditor.

Reddit announced a new search feature that uses AI to scour posts for the best information.

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• Reddit Answers is the social media site's new AI-powered search tool.
• Reddit Answers uses AI to summarize information from posts.
• We tried an early-access version. Here's what we found.

It's been a good year for Reddit.

The company went public to much fanfare. It has continued to grow in value as it makes its useful data available to AI companies like OpenAI and Google.