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Apr 2024
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The state of modern answer engines, AI d...

Jason Calacanis
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Todays show:

Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss the potential of new search engines (16:44), the future of SEO(37:35), and demo innovative AI products (48:37).

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason

(2:42) Deep Dive into the cost of running queries and the decrease in the price of hardware storage

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(12:33) The LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard

(16:44) Modern Answer Engines: You.com and Perplexity

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(30:22) Potential and challenges of new search engines

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(37:35) Future of SEO and data sources in the context of new search engines

(48:37) Sunny demos Infinity AI

(54:35) Sunny and Jason discuss Hume AI’s Empathic Voice Interface

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