I want an AI to search the web with answers
AI search engine
Answers questions with cited web sources, replacing the blue-link search box.
2 wrappers indexed · Category · consumer search
Teardown
PERPLEXITY
$9B
Public data & APIs
Wrapped product
Consumer answer engine with citations
Same search APIs + frontier model on retrieved results
Backers
- Accel
- IVP
- NEA
- NVIDIA
Teardown
YOU.COM
$50M
Public data & APIs
Wrapped product
Web search & research APIs for AI agents
Same retrieval + frontier model API on open web data
Backers
- Salesforce Ventures
- NVIDIA
Then build it yourself
Most of the value is the same APIs + your data + a clean prompt.
Open any teardown above for the data layer, the agent prompt, and the exact internal substitute. The point isn't to clone the startup — it's to replay the useful workflow inside your org.