Will Bryk

And so then it became an optimization problem.

But at least there was like an existence proof that it's possible to build a better search engine on Google.

And that was very inspiring for me.

So then it was like, okay, like, how do we optimize the hell out of that?

And transformers had gotten really good at the time.

And Google wasn't really leaning into it.

And we just had this deep belief in the bitter lesson, maybe more than Google for search, which is that like, if we could develop systems, like neural systems, where you pour more data into it, it just gets better and better for the thing we're optimizing for, then you could actually just totally be better than Google.

When we released this to the world in November 2022, like it was actually shocking.

And Andre Carbethy retweeted it.

It was pretty popular on Twitter.

It was like this new way to find information.

It was the first time people were like, holy cow, it's possible to find things beyond Google.

And then, by the way, two weeks later, Chachpiti came out.

So then people realized, okay, there's another new way of finding information outside Google with LLMs.

And that was very critical to us.

So like we released our first search engine to the world in a year and a half after starting X on November 2022.

Two weeks later, Chachpiti came out.

Actually, to me, I was at nerves when I saw the announcement.

I played with it.

I was like, this feels like GB3, but a little bit like better UI.