Mixedbread launches Toast 1, a specialized search agent

Toast 1 matches or outperforms Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on search while being up to 10× cheaper and 12× faster. It achieves 70% accuracy on Databricks' OfficeQA Pro V2 at ~$1.15 per task, a new state-of-the-art.
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