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Startup Keenable Aims to Revolutionize Web Search for AI Chatbots

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Keenable, a new startup founded by Andrey Styskin and Matthias Petri, tackles the changing landscape of internet search as more users turn to AI chatbots.

  • Context: As AI chatbots process large volumes of data more efficiently than humans, there's a growing need to adapt web search infrastructure for AI usage.
  • Founders: Styskin, with experience from Yandex and Amazon, and AI scientist Petri, aim to address this need with their startup.
  • Funding and Support: Keenable has secured $26 million in seed funding from Accel, Conviction Partners, and angel investors.
  • Technology: The firm has indexed over 100 billion documents and is utilized in AI labs during training and runtime. It partners with companies like Gradium for live information retrieval.
  • Challenges: Keenable faces competition from formidable companies like Google and Microsoft, which are limiting access to their search APIs.
  • Vision: Aiming to be 'the next Google for AI agents', Keenable is developing Web Query Language for comprehensive answers by combining diverse web sources.
  • Market Opportunity: With an engineering team across the U.S. and Europe set to double by year-end, Keenable plans to capitalize on the absence of tailored web-scale search solutions for AI.

Styskin notes that cost-efficiency and innovation are key to competing with giants like Google, especially in agentic search queries.