Highlights:

  • Neeva Inc., an ad-free subscription-based search engine that will give significant information with the power of generative AI, has announced the international debut of its AI-based service as ChatGPT continues to sweep the globe.
  • The goal is to provide the most relevant search results without the blue links and summaries that have become standard in the search business.

Neeva Inc., an ad-free subscription-based search engine that will deliver significant information with the power of generative AI, has announced the international debut of its AI-based service as ChatGPT continues to sweep the globe.

This statement follows closely on the heels of last month’s introduction of its AI product in the United States, which gave users an instant peek at what the search engine might achieve with free or paid memberships.

OpenAI created ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that can answer questions based on massive training data and generate new material depending on user response. This might be especially beneficial for search since users frequently have a vague concept of what they’re searching for, such as “Tell me about nearby stationery stores where I can buy red bouncy balls.”

Sridhar Ramaswamy, founder and chief executive of Neeva and a former Google LLC search executive, said, “AI is already beginning to make search one of the first and most clearly disrupted industries. Our goal has been to responsibly integrate AI and provide authoritative answers that you can trust.”

According to the business, ChatGPT’s GPT-3 large language model and training data are out-of-date; it expires in 2021, which poses an issue for many queries. Neeva established its own AI model that dives into sites to summarize them, crawls through links, and processes relevance back to the user in near real-time to change search and AI.

The goal is to provide the most relevant search results without the blue links and summaries that have become standard in the search business.

Instead of providing a list of links, Neeva’s search engine gives summary answers with integrated citations, making it more comparable to a real-time encyclopedia search. Its model also aims to continually update, meaning that it seeks to maintain the most recent web-based data, albeit not all of its queries do so regularly. Each portion of the text included in a summary is accompanied by a citation number, and the source may be viewed by hovering over the citation. This enhances the summary’s credibility.

If Neeva’s AI stack cannot produce a creative result, it reverts to the conventional search interface that consumers are accustomed to.

Neeva started in the United States in 2021 and Europe in late 2022, targeting the search engine industry with its specialty ad-free and subscription-based search. The firm is presently utilizing its massive, independent search index of billions of pages to train its AI model, which grows by millions of pages daily. According to the firm, this keeps its search results current, quick, and relevant.

As for the search engine’s core business strategy, the company feels that subscription is better than advertising since search experience coherence and privacy are key. First and foremost, users will no longer have to read through sponsored links to get relevant content, and advertisers will not monitor them throughout their searches. The firm now provides free, essential, and premium subscriptions.

In 2023, the competition to control the search field with generative AI reached a fever pitch. Microsoft invested USD 10 billion in OpenAI and began integrating ChatGPT into its Bing search engine. Earlier this month, Google revealed its own generative AI search engine named “Bard.” Baidu Inc., the Chinese search engine behemoth, has announced intentions to develop its ChatGPT competitor for Chinese markets.

Neeva currently serves over two million users worldwide, and its AI capabilities are available to users of all tiers in an English language version now available in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as in local language versions in Germany, France, and Spain.