This Week in Startups

Neeva CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on AI chatbots and the search revolution | E1686

Feb 27, 2023

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Chat GPT: A superficial level

00:33

The Advantages of Privacy-Focused Apps

00:52

Looking into licensing our technology

00:30

Is it okay for a model to ingest other people's content?

00:32

Introduction

2min

Niva AI - The Next Generation Search Engine That's Using the Power of AI to Give Us Answers

3min

What's Chat GPT Doing?

3min

Doing More With Less Is More Important Than Ever

4min

Ad Load - The Dirty Secret Behind the Ads Model

3min

Is There a Filter Bubble in Search?

5min

Why People Come to Niva?

2min

How Do You Make Money With NIMA?

3min

Is There a 100x Investment in Google?

2min

10.

The State-of-the-Art for Search Is No Longer Going to Be a Wall of Links

2min

11.

Google Search

2min

12.

Search Engines and the Ads Ecosystem

5min

13.

The Ad Supported Search Ecosystem

3min

14.

Is This Going to Be a Big Change?

2min

15.

Is There Going to Be Litigation on Copyright?

4min

16.

Will Google's Content Moderation Be Sustainable?

3min

17.

Open Loop Versus Constrained?

2min

18.

Constrained Models Can Make Up Facts

2min

19.

Is There Any Practical Use for These Models?

2min

20.

How Can You Get More Done in One Week?

2min

Neeva CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Molly to talk all things search and AI chatbots, including Neeva’s technology and the difficulty of building a search engine (1:41), Neeva’s consumer focus and business model (20:00), and the search-to-answer revolution (41:31).

(0:00) Molly kicks off the show

(1:41) Neeva’s Purpose

(5:06) The technological underpinning of Neeva

(8:00) The hurdles building Neeva

(10:26) Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub - Apply in 5 minutes for six figures in discounts at http://aka.ms/thisweekinstartups

(11:53) The problems search aims to solve

(18:31) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups

(20:00) Why choose Neeva

(24:01) Neeva’s business model

(29:18) Moving from search to answers + citing sources

(35:53) The ad supported publishing ecosystem

(37:58) Pilot - Get 20% off the first 6 months at https://pilot.com/twist

(39:13) Leaving Google

(41:31) The search to answers revolution

(44:34) Compensating publishers and dealing with content moderation

(48:51) Open loop vs. Closed loop

(54:29) Neeva copycats

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FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood

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This Week in Startups

Neeva CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on AI chatbots and the search revolution | E1686

Chat GPT: A superficial level

The Advantages of Privacy-Focused Apps

Looking into licensing our technology

Is it okay for a model to ingest other people's content?

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