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AI search has moved from research curiosity to commercial reality in the mid-2020s. By June 2025, AI-driven search traffic accounts for roughly 7.82% of the combined search market...
At the heart of modern AI search is the embedding — a numerical vector representation of text, images, or other content that captures its semantic meaning. Embeddings allow AI syst...
Because pure dense retrieval can miss exact lexical matches and pure sparse retrieval can miss semantic intent, the dominant production pattern in 2025 is hybrid search — a combina...
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) combines retrieval of relevant documents with generative AI to produce accurate, context-aware answers grounded in retrieved information. The t...
AI search increasingly operates across modalities and languages, not just text. Multimodal AI search can understand and retrieve information across text, images, audio, and video f...
Running AI search at scale requires sophisticated infrastructure for vector storage, indexing, and serving. Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search trades a small loss in recall...
The consumer AI search product landscape is dominated by a small number of well-funded players. Perplexity is an answer engine that pairs a generative LLM with live web search and...