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May 2, 2025 57 min

Inside You.com’s Plan to Outthink Google and OpenAI

from Agentic Hosted by George Bandarian

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

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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 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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