Houston: Dropbox Dash Started as a Personal Multi-Day Search Prototype
Drew Houston · Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox · Oct 18, 2024 · at 11:28
Drew Houston discusses the origin of Dropbox Dash, the company's AI-powered universal search product.
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“And then even something like Dash was initially seeded. I made a little personal search engine because I was just, like, personally frustrated with not being able to find my stuff. And along that whole learning journey with AI, like, the vector search or semantic search, like, that had just been the tooling for that The open source stuff had finally gotten to a place where it was a pretty good developer experience, and so, you know, in a few days I had sort of a hello world type search engine, and I'm like, oh my god, like, this completely works. You don't even have to get the keywords right. The relevance and ranking is super good. We even, like, untuned.”
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