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Socher: You.com solved AI hallucinations before anyone else
“We figured that, I don't know, problem of hallucinations out before anyone else.”
Socher: Microsoft Bing copied You.com's AI image generation feature
“That was eventually copied, and Bing also has that feature now within Bing.com.”
Socher: Startups cannot be 10x better than Google on simple consumer search
“If you think about it from first principles, there is nothing you can do to be 10 X better.”
Socher: Pursuing consumer and enterprise motions simultaneously is generally a bad idea
“It's generally a bad idea. I would discourage everyone from doing it. You need a lot more extra funding. You need a lot of very smart people who execute at extremely high levels. It makes everything harder.”
Socher: You.com gets more queries through APIs than consumer product
“We definitely get a lot more queries coming in through APIs than we do over like the normal consumer you.com product at this point.”
Socher: Consumers dislike paying for services even more than ads
“Truth is people don't like paying for things and they like it even less than advertisements.”
Socher: Studies show developers using You.com are more efficient than on Google
“Yeah, we actually did some studies and developers who use you.com are way more efficient than developers who use Google.”
Socher: You.com launched the first internet-connected LLM search chatbot
“Then we were the first last year to bring chats into the search context also by having the first LN shipped to the world, as far as we know that connected and had a connection to the internet.”
Socher: You.com pioneered routing LLM queries to non-language UI widgets in 2023
“That idea, we were the first to launch that early, 20, 23.”
Moonhub was used by Anthropic and Inflection as pre-launch clients
“Before we launched, we worked with about a hundred companies helping them hire and scale their teams. So some of our sort of early customers pre-launch were companies like Inflection, Anthropic, Sandbox, U.com public companies out there as well as some early s…”