360 AI Search 360AI搜索
Qihoo 360's AI-powered search engine
Overview
360 AI Search is Qihoo 360's AI-first search engine — combines traditional web search with LLM-grounded answer generation and follow-up Q&A. The product is positioned as a free, ad-supported alternative to ChatGPT for Chinese users, leveraging 360's existing browser and security-product distribution channels.
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360 AI 搜索是奇虎 360 旗下 AI 优先的搜索引擎，将传统网页搜索与 LLM 答案生成、追问式对话结合。借助 360 浏览器与安全产品的渠道分发，定位为面向中国用户的免费、广告支撑的 AI 搜索替代方案。
Pricing
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Use cases
What you can produce with 360 AI Search 360AI搜索
- Type a question in Chinese and receive an AI-generated answer with cited web sources plus suggested follow-up questions, instead of a page of blue links.
- Compare how more than a dozen integrated Chinese large models (such as DeepSeek and Qwen) answer the same query without paying for separate subscriptions.
- Snap a photo or speak a voice query on the mobile app and get an AI answer — search is not limited to typed text.
- Hand the super-search agent a multi-step research task, such as comparing products or summarising a topic, and receive an assembled result rather than raw links.
- Search inside video content and get AI-generated summaries of what the videos cover.
- Use the whole product free of charge with no account or subscription, since it is ad-supported and bundled with 360's browser distribution.
ASEAN Perspective
360 AI Search 360AI搜索 in Southeast Asia
在中国 AI 搜索赛道与百度、夸克、腾讯元宝形成多方竞争，依托 360 安全卫士的桌面分发触达三四线城市用户。
360 AI Search is Qihoo 360's AI-powered answer engine, blending web search with generative summaries primarily for the Chinese market. For Mandarin-language research and China-domestic queries it is fast and competitive with other domestic players, and it is free to use.
The major caveats for an ASEAN/global audience are access and language: the product is built for China, the interface and content are Chinese-first, and there is little international availability, data-residency clarity, or documented public API. Outside Mandarin-speaking users with China-focused needs, most readers will be better served by global answer engines.
What people say
360 AI Search has been through more identity changes than almost any product in this directory. Qihoo 360 launched it as an AI-first answer engine, rebranded it as Nano AI Search (纳米AI搜索) in November 2024, upgraded it again to "Nano AI Super Search" — an agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks — in June 2025, and refreshed the brand once more in August 2025 around a "multi-agent swarm" concept. The core proposition has stayed consistent: a free, ad-supported Chinese search product that aggregates over a dozen mainstream large models (DeepSeek, Qwen and others) behind one box, with text, voice, photo and video search modes.
What users genuinely like is the price and the model buffet. You get grounded, citation-backed answers and access to multiple frontier Chinese models without paying for separate subscriptions, and distribution through 360's browser and security products means it is already on many PCs in China. The agent mode, which can research a topic and deliver an assembled result rather than a list of links, has drawn positive coverage from Chinese tech media.
The adoption story is less flattering. QuestMobile data reported in Chinese media showed the app's monthly active users declining through 2025 — one widely cited figure had mobile MAU falling from around 24 million in February 2025 to roughly 12 million by August — while rivals like Kimi, Doubao and DeepSeek pulled far ahead. Commentary on Zhihu and elsewhere argues the product has struggled to carve an identity between traditional search and chatbot assistants, and the repeated renaming has not helped recognition.
It fits Chinese-language users who want a free, no-login way to compare answers across multiple domestic LLMs, and people already inside the 360 browser ecosystem. It is not relevant for most users outside China, and anyone needing a stable, slowly-evolving product should note how frequently it reinvents itself.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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