AI chat models - support for web search tools

Hi everyone. I am new to n8n, running the latest version locally on a Mac. I have imported some newsletter/content automation workflows and swapped out the OpenAI chat model nodes for Mistral. I am in Hong Kong, where unfortunately OpenAI and Anthropic are unavailable.

The workflow involves triggering the Tavily API as a tool of the AI agents. However, I came to realize that the generated output is purely based on the model’s knowledge without any input from Tavily and I suspect that this might be because the Mistral chat model node doesn’t support the use of tools. Does anyone know if this is the case? Is there a list of compatible models somewhere?

Alternatively, I am thinking of signing up for a Perplexity API and setting up an HTTP request tool. Would this run into the same issue? I am interested in generating a summary of recent industry news (i.e. within last 24 hours) so any pointers to useful resources would be much appreciated.

Another newbie question - are there any AI chatbots that are good at helping design/troubleshoot n8n workflows? So far I’m getting rather poor results from the ones I’ve tried.

It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

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Don’t ask stupid questions: the info you requested is irrelevant to the OP question.
It has been more than 4 months now (since this other forum post asking for the integration of OpenAI web search tool)… when will have it?