AI SEARCH STARTUP

Happy Monday! IT hiring has shown a glimmer of hope in Q1. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

The World AI Conference in Shanghai featured AI products from Tesla, Qualcomm, and Chinese firms. SenseTime debuted SenseNova 5.5 after ChatGPT. Optimism remains despite U.S. sanctions, as Huawei's Cloud Computing advocates innovation. Baidu CEO Rob...

The search landscape is evolving rapidly, with Google facing challenges from specialized platforms and AI-driven search experiences. Users now turn to diverse platforms like Amazon and social media for different search needs, impacting Google's heft...

Perplexity AI, an AI startup, is under Amazon's review for scraping content. The company faces allegations of plagiarism and generating fake quotes. The CEO defended the practices, emphasizing proper source crediting. Perplexity AI's use of AWS serv...

SoftBank's AI investments, especially in Perplexity AI at $3 billion, signify a strategic shift towards innovative technologies, including the 'answer engine' concept, amidst Masayoshi Son's ambitious AI vision.

AI startups face scrutiny for bypassing Reddit's updated scraping rules. Plagiarism accusations against firms like Perplexity highlight the need for stricter data usage regulations. Reddit's cooperation with TollBit and the Internet Archive ensures ...

For a few days, AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world's biggest company, but behind the its staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a claim to the artificial intelligence bonanza. "If you look across the...

Microsoft-backed OpenAI acquired database analytics startup Rockset to enhance its enterprise products, the ChatGPT maker announced. The deal size was undisclosed.

Perplexity likely bypassed web crawler blocks via the Robots Exclusion Protocol, as reported by Wired, using analytics to track AI traffic.

The funding is led by Singapore-based fund Lanchi Ventures and valued the startup, currently without revenue, at $260 million. Lanchi Ventures, formerly BlueRun Ventures China, rebranded last year to distance itself from its Silicon Valley origin Bl...

Similarweb dat shows You.com received 11 million visitors in May, marking an increase in web traffic for the year. However, this figure remains below its peak of 20 million visitors in February 2023. Following ChatGPT's role in ignited interest in Y...

The New York Times article discusses concerns from publishing executives like Frank Pine regarding Google's AI-generated summaries, emphasizing the impact on traffic and the need for direct reader relationships to reduce reliance on search engines.

Google search results can also be used as weapon for cyber fraud. Scamsters are reportedly using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to trick users.

The EU has identified generative AI as one of the key threats to elections being held across the 27-country bloc June 6-9. Brussels in March pressed Bing, alongside several big digital platforms including Google Search, TikTok and YouTube, about act...

The AI overviews are supposed to only crop up when Google's technology determines they will be the quickest and most effective way to satisfy a user's curiosity — a solution mostly likely to happen with complex subjects or when people are brainstorm...

OpenAI unveils GPT-4 updates for ChatGPT, delaying a search product announcement. Pressure mounts to grow user base amid fluctuating website traffic. Competition with Google and Perplexity for AI search capabilities intensifies.

OpenAI to introduce AI search tool challenging Google. ChatGPT integrated with Microsoft's Bing to extract web info with citations. OpenAI's announcement could be timed a day before the Tuesday start of Google's I/O conference, which it conducts ann...

The feature would allow users to ask ChatGPT a question and receive answers that use details from the web with citations to sources such as Wikipedia entries and blog posts, according to the person, who asked to remain anonymous discussing private i...

Arvind Jain, cofounder and CEO of Glean, who also co-founded data management startup Rubrik, said he plans to use the funding to double the team to 700 people this year.