Inside You.com’s Plan to Outthink Google and OpenAI

About this episode

Richard Socher and Bryan McCann discuss You.com's innovative approach to enterprise search and the development of their AI product, ARI.

What happens when the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce builds a search engine for enterprises?In this episode, Richard Socher (CEO) and Bryan McCann (CTO) of You.com reveal how they’re reinventing enterprise search and agentic workflows with their latest product, Ari—a deep research assistant that goes far beyond fast facts.We explore:How You.com is going deeper than Google and faster than PerplexityWhy consumer LLMs aren’t enough for serious enterprise workHow a Stanford summer project led to one of the most important AI research breakthroughsWhere Socher and McCann see AGI actually emerging—and why simulation may be the next frontier00:00 Trailer01:56 Introduction03:41 Richard and Bryan's Meeting09:52 Foundations of search12:33 Deep research agent13:49 How You.com stands out16:03 Custom agents18:15 ARI use cases19:43 Going slow to go fast24:00 Models under the hood26:00 AGI workflows29:11 Adoption33:34 Complicated workflows36:45 AGI - are we there?46:20 How to compete as a startup53:32 Being right56:23 Outro

People in this episode

Host: George Bandarian

Guests: Richard Socher, Bryan McCann

Topics covered

• enterprise search
• AI research
• agentic workflows
• deep research assistant
• AGI
• startup competition

Keywords

• You.com
• enterprise search
• AI
• ARI
• AGI
• deep research
• agentic workflows
• Google
• OpenAI
• Salesforce

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: You.com, Salesforce, Google, OpenAI, Stanford

Products: ARI

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