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By Kyle Wiggers
November 14, 2023
When OpenAI connected ChatGPT to the internet, it supercharged the AI chatbot’s capabilities. Now, the search engine You.com wants to do the same for every large language model (LLMs) out there. You.com today announced the launch of a set of APIs aimed at giving LLMs like Meta’s Llama 2 real-time access to the open web […]
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Linkup connects LLMs with premium content sources (legally)
If you’ve used ChatGPT Search or Perplexity, you know that being able to search the web and see citations inline greatly improves these AI chatbots. Results are better when they involve timely information, and web search may reduce so-called hallucinations (i.e. when a generative AI outputs incorrect information). That’s why French startup Linkup is building an API that lets developers access web content from premium, trusted sources and hand the results to a large language model (LLM) to enric
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OpenAI’s new tool attempts to explain language models’ behaviors
It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. Even for data scientists, it’s difficult to know why, always, a model responds in the way it does, like inventing facts out of whole cloth. In an effort to peel […]
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AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app
A search startup raised $26 million recently to offer an AI-powered rival to Google. Perplexity AI, which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,” closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Databricks Ventures and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun. […]
Apr 4, 2023
Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web
The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.
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