Find a company Niva is shutting down its consumer search engine to focus on artificial intelligence (AI).
writing to the company blog Saturday, Founders Shridal Ramaswami and Vivek Ragnathan He pointed to the many challenges facing businesses, arguing that persuading users to try new search engines is difficult.
“These headwinds and a different economic environment have made it clear that there is no longer a path to sustainable business in consumer search,” the founders wrote. “As a result, in the coming weeks, we will be shutting down neeva.com and our consumer search product and moving to a new focus.”
Its new focus is on how to apply the company’s expertise in search and large language models (LLM).
“Many of the technologies we have pioneered in smaller models, reduced size, reduced latency and lower cost of deployment are elements that businesses really want and need today,” the blog post said. .
Neeva’s switch comes as more companies add AI capabilities to their products and governments around the world grapple with how to deal with the technology’s impact.
for example, Amazon On May 17, the company announced four new devices to its Echo line of Alexa-powered smart products: the Echo Pop, Echo Show 5, Echo Show 5 Kids, and Echo Buds.
“Customers around the world love Alexa as their personal AI they can rely on. Today, they have purchased well over 500 million Alexa-enabled devices, and Alexa usage has grown 35% last year,” he said. said. Rohit PrasadSenior Vice President and Chief Scientist at Alexa.
On the same day, Dave LimpThe company’s senior vice president of devices and services told Bloomberg that the Alexa digital assistant uses LLM to summarize text it gathers from the web, making Alexa even more proficient in different languages.
“This puts Amazon squarely in the generative AI competition with the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google at a time when large-scale language models have overtaken commercial AI efforts,” said PYMNTS. wrote last week. “As development continues, we are working to make Alexa more conversational.”
Also last week, UAE Minister for AI, Omar Al-Ollama, said in an interview that the technology needs the same level of control as artificial intelligence. weapons grade uranium.
“Even if we were the most progressive and most proactive nation on earth, with the best guardrails and safety measures in place, [AI] Whether in China, the US, the UK or anywhere else, our interconnectedness will lead us in the wrong direction and harm our people,” Al-Ollama said at the National’s Connectivity Forum. .
