diff --git a/web/src/app/chat/ChatPage.tsx b/web/src/app/chat/ChatPage.tsx
index 70bb46058..083f36ebf 100644
--- a/web/src/app/chat/ChatPage.tsx
+++ b/web/src/app/chat/ChatPage.tsx
@@ -111,10 +111,8 @@ export function ChatPage({
   const selectedChatSession = chatSessions.find(
     (chatSession) => chatSession.id === existingChatSessionId
   );
-  const chatSessionIdRef = useRef<number | null>(existingChatSessionId);
 
-  // LLM
-  const llmOverrideManager = useLlmOverride(selectedChatSession);
+  const chatSessionIdRef = useRef<number | null>(existingChatSessionId);
 
   // Assistants
   const filteredAssistants = orderAssistantsForUser(availableAssistants, user);
@@ -136,6 +134,25 @@ export function ChatPage({
           )
         : undefined
   );
+
+  // Gather default temperature settings
+  const search_param_temperature = searchParams.get(
+    SEARCH_PARAM_NAMES.TEMPERATURE
+  );
+  const defaultTemperature = search_param_temperature
+    ? parseFloat(search_param_temperature)
+    : selectedAssistant?.tools.some(
+          (tool) =>
+            tool.in_code_tool_id === "SearchTool" ||
+            tool.in_code_tool_id === "InternetSearchTool"
+        )
+      ? 0
+      : 0.7;
+  const llmOverrideManager = useLlmOverride(
+    selectedChatSession,
+    defaultTemperature
+  );
+
   const setSelectedAssistantFromId = (assistantId: number) => {
     // NOTE: also intentionally look through available assistants here, so that
     // even if the user has hidden an assistant they can still go back to it
@@ -764,10 +781,7 @@ export function ChatPage({
           llmOverrideManager.llmOverride.modelName ||
           searchParams.get(SEARCH_PARAM_NAMES.MODEL_VERSION) ||
           undefined,
-        temperature:
-          llmOverrideManager.temperature ||
-          parseFloat(searchParams.get(SEARCH_PARAM_NAMES.TEMPERATURE) || "") ||
-          undefined,
+        temperature: llmOverrideManager.temperature || undefined,
         systemPromptOverride:
           searchParams.get(SEARCH_PARAM_NAMES.SYSTEM_PROMPT) || undefined,
         useExistingUserMessage: isSeededChat,
diff --git a/web/src/lib/hooks.ts b/web/src/lib/hooks.ts
index ac00e6f95..cb4645d11 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/hooks.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/hooks.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/lib/types";
 import useSWR, { mutate, useSWRConfig } from "swr";
 import { errorHandlingFetcher } from "./fetcher";
-import { useState } from "react";
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { DateRangePickerValue } from "@tremor/react";
 import { SourceMetadata } from "./search/interfaces";
 import { destructureValue } from "./llm/utils";
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ export interface LlmOverrideManager {
 }
 
 export function useLlmOverride(
-  currentChatSession?: ChatSession
+  currentChatSession?: ChatSession,
+  defaultTemperature?: number
 ): LlmOverrideManager {
   const [llmOverride, setLlmOverride] = useState<LlmOverride>(
     currentChatSession && currentChatSession.current_alternate_model
@@ -167,7 +168,13 @@ export function useLlmOverride(
     );
   };
 
-  const [temperature, setTemperature] = useState<number | null>(null);
+  const [temperature, setTemperature] = useState<number | null>(
+    defaultTemperature != undefined ? defaultTemperature : 0
+  );
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setTemperature(defaultTemperature !== undefined ? defaultTemperature : 0);
+  }, [defaultTemperature]);
 
   return {
     updateModelOverrideForChatSession,