AI-powered search assistant that helps you find and explore the right answers. Andi uses AI everywhere to give you visual results with more than just a chat UX.
Andi is proud to be a
@ycombinator
Top 100 AI Startup in SF ๐ค๐คฉ
SF is the
#1
city to build AI. YC backs more than 850 AI startups here.
Congrats to
@tryfondo
,
@OpenAI
,
@scale_AI
,
@Cruise
, and everyone who made the list ๐
Andi just put an AI Summarize button on the whole darned Internet!
๐ Search or paste any link
๐ง Click Summarize on any result card
โ Get a mind-blowingly great short summary
It does great with long and technical content too!
Summarize now!
Andi is a new type of search engine using Generative AI. So it gives you answers, not links, when searching online - like asking a smart friend.
Ask Andi and see why the future of search looks nothing like the past.
๐
๐
#GenAI
1/๐งต Andi's move to SF is featured in the
@sfchronicle
today! ๐๐ผ โค๏ธ
SF is the best place to build an AI startup. The community is mind-blowing, and SF has the concentration of energy, talent and ideas that startups need.
๐จ๐จLaunch Announcement ๐จ๐จ
Today, weโre launching Andi on
@producthunt
๐ป
Andi is the next-gen search engine that gives factually accurate answers and helps you save time.
Check us out and show some love! Your support would mean a lot to us๐
Excited to see Andi as part of the
@sequoia
Generative AI Application Landscape by
@sonyatweetybird
๐๐ค
Generative AI is the future of search and it's here today. Instead of links, Andi's smart AI assistant gives you answers.
As promised: here is our
@sequoia
Gen AI market map V2! Very thankful for the hundreds of folks who wrote in additions and edits. AI people are amazing ๐ฅน
1/๐งต The new Andi is out now! It's time to make search fun and factual again โญ๏ธ ๐
Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI - visual, conversational and factually accurate.
Thread (1/6) with highlights โฌ๏ธ
Generative AI is the future of search. And it's here now. Instead of links, Andi gives you answers - like talking with a smart friend.
Try it now and ask a question to see why the next generation of search looks nothing like the past.
Exciting news - we've raised $2.5M from
@ycombinator
and other star investors like
@GaingelsVC
@GoodwaterCap
๐คฉ๐ค
@TechCrunch
says Andi is "forging ahead to build an AI assistant that provides answers instead of links when searching online."
AI startups moving to SF is "... the best news San Francisco city leaders could get right now". SF is the beating heart of AI โค๏ธ
50+ events this week w/
@YCombinator
Reunion,
@TechCrunch
Disrupt +
@cerebral_valley
Thanks
@scottbudman
for covering Andi
โจ EXCITINGย ANNOUNCEMENT โจ
Andi X Friday AI
Weโre stoked to share that Andi is acquiring Friday AI!
@FridayAIApp
is an AI-powered educational assistant that helps thousands of busy college students with their homework.
Grateful and excited to be a new home for their users'
โA sleek tool called Andi combines the convenience of a chatbot with the credibility of a standard search setupโand it might just be the answer we need.โ
See what
@JRRaphael
from
@FastCompany
says about our mission to reshape the future of search! ๐๐
Andi is Finalist for ProductHunt's Golden Kitty Awards! ๐ฅ๐
Please vote for us and support AI search that is truly private and anonymous!
Thank you sincerely to the kind member of our Andi fam who nominated us under Privacy! Tbh we had no idea ๐๐๐ค
It's Andi's birthday! Thank you to all our of Andi family for your support, feedback and encouragement. We love building Andi, and we love our community โญ๏ธโค๏ธ
Did you know that Andi uses AI to give you short concise summaries of key information right on the search results cards?
Instead of just snippets, Andi gives you useful descriptions and meaningful content.
We already do this for many sites and we're adding more all the time ๐
Our little team is super excited to see
@andi_search
featured in the This Week at YC newsletter this week!
Thanks heaps for the shoutout
@ycombinator
๐ ๐ ๐
Weโre incredibly excited to announce that Andi is backed by Y Combinator and part of the W22 batch!
With YC's support, we have the opportunity to improve the lives and productivity of 4.5B people who use search every day.
#YCombinator
#startup
#search
Andi just had the most users we've ever seen in a 24 hour period (again).
Our new faster AI models for Generate Text, Summaries and more are handling the load smoothly.
Thank you to everyone using Andi for sticking with us as we figure out scaling AI cost-effectively! ๐
Big new update to Andi finds and displays smarter content in search results in a whole new way. Bye bye snippets! ๐
๐ New result cards get to the heart of what matters
๐ Improved Read view
๐ Better answers using more live content from more places
Hey everyone, Andi's been growing really fast and struggling under super-high load recently. A few things including the Summarize were struggling.
We've added hosting capacity and an Update that should help. Close / reload Andi to update. Should be faster now too ๐ ๐ค
Proud to share that Andi is currently the
#1
voted startup on
@ycombinator
's Launch YC platform ๐ค ๐ ๐พ ๐
Please upvote Andi to support a search engine without spam, ads or clutter (little arrow top left). Thank you for your support ๐ ๐ ๐
"A pure chat service is much more appealing to a younger generation that wants a completely different experience."
Andi is building it for the next generation ๐
Check out what
@RichardWaters
from
@FinancialTimes
says about it. ๐๐
Full story -
6/ Andi uses an ensemble of AI models and approaches to generate these summaries, especially our proprietary fine-tuned news-summarizer model. So it handles many different types of content effortlessly - from simple blog posts to huge technical articles.
AI tech requires users to trust more deeply than EVER because they deliver answers rather than just information.
Andi's focus from Day 1 has been to deliver factually accurate answers that our users can rely on ๐
Thank you
@mims
@WSJ
for a great story.
Andi Search Team is at
#SXSW2023
!
First three days at
#SXSW
have been incredible. Say hi if you're around to learn more about Andi and the power of clear, concise, and factually accurate question-answering.
#Andi
#AndiSearch
P.S. - Don't forget to collect some SWAG ๐
Andi is search for the next generation, a new type of search engine with an intelligent AI assistant that answers complex questions directly. Talking to Andi is like messaging a smart friend who acts as an intermediary to online knowledge, and protects you from spam and ad tech.
Andi is featured as one of the most popular tools on a cool new AI directory called being built by
@_questreal
๐๐ค
Check it out along with some of the other really useful apps and tools on there like
@playground_ai
:
Andi's in Qantas Magazine! ๐ฆ
We definitely have Australian roots, & we're humbled to share Andi with the Qantas audience as The Big Idea๐ก
"We hope in the future 'Ask Andi' is a phrase..as common as 'Google it'"
Thank you
@janey64
for the piece!๐
๐จLAST DAY TO VOTE FOR ANDI ๐จ
Friends, today is the last day to vote for Andi to win the
@ProductHunt
Golden Kitty - Privacy Focused award! Please vote for Andi to back search that is truly anonymous! ๐
We are so appreciative of your support ๐๐
Really interesting article about Andi that looks at the potential for a Gen-Z search engine with a completely new type of UX. Has some great quotes from
@CatoInstitute
, Danny Goodwin from
@sengineland
,
@MarkVenaTechGuy
and more!
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute and share our perspective as a new startup trying to unbreak the Internet. This is such an important initiative!
@MiamiAngela
, co-founder and CEO of
@andi_search
:
The search engine market is broken.
Competition does foster innovation. Google is prioritizing profits and that is ultimately not good for the consumers. I believe in a future where consumers have options to switch and choose.
@kirillzubovsky
@jheitzeb
Yes! We're working on an approach that combines semantic search + LLMs + live data from the web and APIs to ground responses with current information, and uses a conversational UX.
So you get up-to-date answers with source information!
Check it out at
Andi is now live on
@YCombinator
's Launch YC!!
"Andi is like a smart friend who answers complex questions simply, and protects you from spam, ads and tracking ๐ค"
If you like what we're building, we'd love your support.
Andi just launched on Launch YC! ๐
There are a lot of new features in this new version - we canโt wait for you to try them out, and hear how we can improve.
To know more, check out our post on Launch YC and give us some love! ๐งก๐
New release out tonight. Improvements to Read view and content summaries, especially technical content.
๐ Better code snippets and summaries
๐ Syntax highlighting for programming languages
๐ More distraction-free news
Reload for latest! ๐๐๐
Andi believes in the AI community in SF. We're proud to be in the LA Times today supporting it. It's time for a Boom Loop not a Doom Loop, and a better future through innovation.
With AI in SF, "you have a front-row seat to a play, and at the same time youโre in the play.โ
10/ PS Andi launched short AI-generated summaries that display already on many results cards earlier last year. But this is a big step-up in explaining longer articles and content succinctly while capturing all the key points ๐
2/๐งต Truth and beauty
Andi combines generative AI with true information and beautiful content to make search more interesting, engaging and useful.
The AI is practical and useful.
And we heavily promote sources - the content producers that make the Internet amazing.
LLMs are like fill-in-the-blank machines, they just make stuff up. Andi works like humans, combining language models with reasoning and common sense.
Thank you so much
@strwbilly
@techreview
for the mention ๐๐
Hey folks - we just pushed a new version of Andi live!! If you get a blank screen, please try refreshing browser, closing tab, and reopening. While the CDN is updating, the new version might get stuck in the cache ๐๐
4/๐งต Change your view ๐
Change how you see results based on what you need or your mood - with an entertaining Feed, an info-packed Grid, or simple List views. Results take full-advantage of large screens.
Andi is featured on
@BetaList
today. Please Like to support spreading the word about the free search engine without spam or clutter that can answer your questions directly.
5/๐งต Understand the world more clearly โจ
๐ค Read without distraction
โก Summarize any content
๐คฏ Explain complex topics
๐ช Create accurate reports and writing
Andi is a new type of AI search assistant. Instead of a list of blue links, Andi gives you answers. It uses generative AI to combine and explain information from many sources in real-time. So you get direct answers to your questions without spam or ads.
We're excited to share that Andi was added by one of our amazing users to
@AlternativeTo
! AlternativeTo is a free platform for crowdsourced software recommendations. If you love Andi, we'd be incredibly grateful for some love and support there ๐
#tech
Andi's had its 3 busiest days EVER & our traffic is doubling every day! ๐ฅฒ We're under a really high load so please bear with us if you get any errors or timeouts. We're working hard to scale as quickly as we can. Thanks to everyone using and supporting Andi; we love you allโจ๐
6/๐งต See the full Launch on
@ycombinator
We've learned from our users that speed, accuracy, and clear sourcing matter.
If you like what we're building, please click upvote and share because it really helps us get the word out ๐๐
YC W22's
@andi_search
is search for the next generation. It uses AI combined with search results to give you new ways of understanding information and lets you choose the way you view results.
Itโs ad-free, private, and factually accurate.
3/๐งต Stunning visual results ๐ท
Search is more interesting, fun and useful with visual results that highlight the beauty and richness of content online, and enhance search with the meaningful information they contain.
3/๐งต SF may have challenges. But there is a rising tide of driven people working to solve them, and the positives win out easily.
Andi could be anywhere, but SF is the one. There's nowhere we'd rather be building.
2/๐งต That's why
@YCombinator
encourages startups to move to SF, and the YC Alumni network is so vibrant. It's why the
@cerebral_valley
community is taking off. And why SF is the heart of the AI revolution.
Instead of a page of blue links, Andi gives you answers. It's the "not search" engine with an intelligent assistant that's like talking with a smart friend. We're backed by
@YCombinator
and working to save the world from spam and ad tech!
โAndi is truly a rethink of how the search engines of today should function. It encourages users to rediscover the best that the web has to offer.โ
Thank you
@sejournal
and
@martinibuster
for including Andi in the list of Best AI Search Engines. ๐๐
Thank you
@alex
for the awesome writeup about
@andi_search
!!! We're super excited that Andi is one of TechCrunch's favorite startups from the
@ycombinator
W22 batch ๐๐ฅ
"Itโs for modern day workers to approach work with a little bit more intention," says
@rickyyean
. "A little more focus."
How
@flowdotclub
(YC S21) helps solo workers stay focused and get things done, with a โPeleton for coworkingโ:
Just finished.
The best of the best of the AI Companies.
A few more than 1,000.
Now, if you were a VC, you have to say no to all but 10.
Which would you invest in?
Beyond the obvious OpenAI, Stability, Anthropic, etc.
AI is going to disrupt certain parts of our lives but will have a net positive impact. Try out new tools, and have an open mindset. Don't be afraid, be curious!
This was so much fun! Thanks
@giowplg
for sharing our story ๐๐
Fantastic article in the
@nytimes
on San Francisco's reputation. Despite challenges, SF is vibrant and diverse, thanks to its people. Thank you
@hknightsf
for including our perspective! ๐
My first
@nytimes
byline:
San Franciscans are tired of hearing "Are you OK?" from people elsewhere who've heard about the city's terrible reputation. The truth, as San Franciscans point out, is far less awful and more nuanced. Had fun writing this one.
The super useful and are led by
@danielsgriffin
, who is doing awesome research work on AI search. He's interested in reading about what Andi users see as key. If you have any interesting thoughts to share, please reach out ๐๐
I'm currently going through my list of search systems and adding a simple tag describing whether their core product is a generated response or a list of links.
@andi_search
is such a fascinating outlier.
I need to read what folks that use it a lot to say they see as key.
@dickpicnft
What better place to shine a light than where it is most needed? ๐ค
We're only a 2-person startup in early alpha testing, but our mission is to help people find factual information more easily. And no audience needs that more than Twitter ๐๐
@chrisj_fc
We're huge fans of OpenAI and ChatGPT. Their work is incredibly important. We're working on an approach that combines semantic search + LLMs + live data from the web and APIs to ground responses with current information. Their work on LLMs will help us and everyone ๐ค๐
@NathanLands
@sequoia
@sonyatweetybird
Thank you! We've got some big updates coming including new versions of our search and Q&A models we're working on now, so will say hi when live!
Getting good feedback is helping us improve Andi a lot so we appreciate you sharing what we're working on very much ๐
Hey Andi Fam! A few folks reported getting a blank screen after the latest big update. If you get an empty white screen after loading Andi please do a hard reload and it should clear it. The keyboard shortcut is:
Mac: Hit cmd + shift + r
Windows: Hit ctrl + shift + r
๐๐ค
@nioncao
@jedwhite
@tszzl
๐๐ Thank you!! .ai domains are cool. We could only get . Our early prototype was which redirects now, as folks like the Andi name better.
@ericgardner0
Hi Eric, thanks for your question! Andi generates short summaries in answer to the questions you ask, and presents them with attribution alongside the original source and the full matching search results. In this case the Washington Post report in the full results๐
@webdevwilson
Try out the Read button in the results on - it shows on articles that have real content so you can avoid this, and gives you a kindle-like clean view of content from many sites that are otherwise hard to read like The New York Times or the Economist ๐ค๐