January 3, 2025 - Merlin HQ
Merlin is proud to announce three new additions to the product on getmerlin.in/chat:
Chatbots on Merlin
You can now create chatbots on Merlin Chat website. The bot creation process has been simplified to a three-step Bot Builder which helps you build simple inside Merlin easily.
- Give a name to your bot
- Describe what it is supposed to do
- Draft a welcome message i.e. an introduction that the bot will greet you with, when you first talk with it
Once you are done creating your chatbot, you can:
- Decide to make it public on our Community Bots or keep it private
- Trigger the bot in chat with @bot-name
- Use them on the Merlin extension too!
DeepSeek V3 model on Merlin
We've added the new open-source model by DeepSeek which:
- Matches GPT-4o's performance at a tiny fraction of the cost
- Smartly uses only 37B parameters at a time from its 671B total, making it fast and efficient
- Is the best performing open-source AI model currently available
- Excels at coding tasks and complex math
- Strong at reasoning, writing, and analysis across multiple languages
Costs just 2 queries per prompt, without Live Search and Large Context inputs.
Pro Finder
Turning on Pro Finder on a chat in Projects leads to better knowledge searching across your project if it has a large number and/or size of files.
It uses an agentic mechanism to scrape, check relevance and confirm the validity of the responses it gives.
From a query cost perspective, it may cost from 2x to 20x the cost of a
claude-3.5-sonnet
response, therefore, for non-Pro users (like AppSumo LTD users), we have kept the cost of one Pro Finder query to be 250 queries.The feature is still experimental and the cost is bound to go down as we optimise its performance.
Thanks -- that's all for this update!