Phind

AI search engine

Y CombinatorSummer 2022InactiveConsumerGenerative AISearchAIAI Assistant

What they do

Problem

People need fast, accurate answers and guidance when searching complex questions online.

Solution

Phind provides an AI-powered search engine that uses multi-step reasoning and a generative interface to deliver interactive, high-quality answers.

Who it's for

Individuals and professionals who search for detailed answers online, including developers and knowledge workers.

Founders

Michael Royzen

Founder

Founder & CEO at Standard Signal (YC P26), building the first hedge fund where AI runs everything from research to the actual trade execution end-to-end. Previously co-founder & CEO at Phind (YC S22), where I built the first AI search engine and trained LLMs that beat GPT-4 on HumanEval (2024) and had the #1-ranked open-source coding model on Hugging Face for 6 months in 2023. UT Austin Turing Scholar '22 Previously an undergrad NLP researcher, as well as ML at Lyft, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.

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