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Updated June 15, 2026You.com is an AI-powered search engine and productivity platform founded in 2020 by Richard Socher (former chief scientist at Salesforce and creator of GloVe embeddings). The company provides an AI assistant that combines web search with generative AI to help users research, write, and code.
You.com's search engine uses AI to synthesize information from web sources, providing cited answers rather than traditional link-based results. The platform offers different modes for various tasks: Smart (quick answers), Genius (deep research with multi-step reasoning), and Create (content generation). You.com also provides APIs for developers building search and retrieval features into AI applications.
You.com competes with Perplexity AI and Google in the AI search space, differentiating through its multimodal capabilities and developer-friendly APIs. The platform's focus on transparent sourcing and citation makes it useful for research tasks where verifiability matters. Richard Socher's NLP expertise gives the company strong technical foundations for building search and language understanding capabilities.