You.com is an AI assistant that began as a personalization-focused search engine. While still offering web search capabilities, You.com has evolved to prioritize a chat-first AI assistant.
The company was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher, the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce and third most-cited researcher in Natural Language Processing with over 175,000 citations, and Bryan McCann, a former Lead Research Scientist in NLP at Salesforce. Socher is CEO and McCann CTO.
In December 2022, You.com was the first search engine to integrate a consumer-facing Large Language Model (LLM) with real-time internet access for up-to-date responses with citations. In February 2023, it was the first to introduce multimodal AI chat capabilities, providing users with various types of responses, including visual elements like stock charts.
In 2023, Time named Socher to the "TIME100 AI", recognizing "the most influential people in AI". In an interview with Time, Socher expressed You.com's goal of enhancing user productivity and access to information, stating, "to give people answers more quickly, make them more productive, efficient, more well-informed, with better privacy." please paraphrase this essay in 500 words
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