Inside You.com’s Plan to Outthink Google and OpenAI
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
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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 Perplexity
- Why consumer LLMs aren’t enough for serious enterprise work
- How a Stanford summer project led to one of the most important AI research breakthroughs
- Where Socher and McCann see AGI actually emerging—and why simulation may be the next frontier
00:00 Trailer
01:56 Introduction
03:41 Richard and Bryan's Meeting
09:52 Foundations of search
12:33 Deep research agent
13:49 How You.com stands out
16:03 Custom agents
18:15 ARI use cases
19:43 Going slow to go fast
24:00 Models under the hood
26:00 AGI workflows
29:11 Adoption
33:34 Complicated workflows
36:45 AGI - are we there?
46:20 How to compete as a startup
53:32 Being right
56:23 Outro