During the Beta phase, we are giving all testers free access to Quick AI, along with the ability to use the AI models available in our Pro subscription.

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Quick AI

Overview

Quick AI is the fastest way to get answers to your questions directly within Raycast.

• From root search, just hit Tab to open the Quick AI view.
• Type you prompt and hit Enter to submit.
• Alternatively, you can type your question in root search and hit Tab to send it to Quick AI

Follow-up actions

After getting an answer, you can use the primary action (hitting Enter) to paste the response into an active input field. You can select your preferred primary action (Paste to Active App or Copy to Clipboard) in the AI section of Raycast Settings.

You can also continue the conversation and ask follow-up questions in the same window.

In the Actions Menu (Ctrl K) you can find additional options, also accessible directly through the following hotkeys:

• Paste Response Enter
• Copy Response Ctrl Enter
• New Question Ctrl N
• Go to Previous Message Ctrl ↑
• Go to Next Message Ctrl ↓
• Go to Previous Chat Ctrl [
• Go to Next Chat Ctrl ]
• Delete Message Ctrl Alt X
• Delete Chat Ctrl X
• Delete All Chats Ctrl Shift X

Switching between models

During the Beta phase, we are giving all Windows testers access to AI models available in our Pro subscription to choose from in Quick AI. Just go to the AI tab in Raycast Settings using Ctrl , and select one from the dropdown. Or you can enable this in settings as shown above or using that Change Model actions in Quick AI.

You can change between models mid-chat, or regenerate a response with a different model using the Ctrl K menu.

Auto Model

To make it easier to choose the best model, we’ve introduced an experiment feature called Raycast Auto model that, under the hood, selects the best provider and model for your request: it chooses a fast model for simple requests, a reasoning model for sophisticated tasks, the best coding model for programming requests, or a web-search model if it requires access to real-time data. We’re currently testing this (hence, experimental!) and will be fine tuning it as we receive your feedback. Please let us know how it’s going in our slack community channel -  #ai-experiments.

Additional Settings

In the AI section of Raycast Settings, you can also:

• Completely disable AI in Raycast
• Choose the default Primary Action
• Select the time after which Quick AI starts a new chat instead of bring up the previous one

What’s coming next?

If you’re familiar with Raycast on macOS, you know that we have many other advanced features, such as AI Chat, AI Extensions, AI Commands, AI Presets, and more.

Quick AI is just the first step, and we will gradually add more of these capabilities to Windows as we go along. To find out more about the full capabilities of Raycast AI, visit our website.