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Socher: Bing and Google copied You.com's AI chat features
“Bing and Google copy, you know, what we have launched last late last year with you chat. And you know, they may have worked on it before, like some people, you know, claim, oh, for, I mean, we've also met the prompt engineering in 2018, but like, they've copie…”
Socher: Google deranked You.com across all sites, causing immediate traffic drop
“We just got deranked in all our sites from Google and saw like a drop right away.”
Socher: Entry-Level Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Automatable
“I think the biggest problem and biggest worry I have is that the entry level jobs right now are more and more automatable.”
Richard Socher: Bing and Google Copied YouChat Months After Its Launch
“We've also seen Bing and Google copy what we have launched late last year with you chat. They've copied us in the sense that we've launched it earlier and then they launched something very similar three to four months after.”
Socher: You.com launched the world's first search-integrated LLM
“We've launched uChap and had the first LM with a search backend and citations and web links and so on in the search context which we launched last December before anyone else in the world”
Socher: Content creators will be left out if closed search engines win
“If we don't win and others win, then they'll be actually fully left out.”
Socher: AI advances faster by expanding unified models than building separate ones
“Kind of like imagine Wikipedia and everyone just keeps adding to Wikipedia and keeps making one dictionary better rather than everyone who wants to build a dictionary just starts their own dictionary company and then builds it from scratch. It just doesn't mak…”
Benioff Personally Invested in and Named AI Startup You.com
“Another incredible company that I'm personally an investor in is you.com company that I invested myself. I named it myself. The founder is the former head of Salesforce research.”
Socher: You.com runs its own language model in production
“Certainly like u.com we partner with different providers, but we also have our own LM running in production already.”
Socher: You.com's open platform struggled due to lack of user scale
“Now we've launched this open platform last year, but to be honest, we haven't had A ton of really amazing apps being added to this platform because we just don't have hundreds of millions of users, and so if your, you know, app, like, lets you book a kayaking …”