By Jeffrey Dastin
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San Francisco, June 17 (Reuters) - The Startup Behind You.com Is Raising $50 Million in Fresh Capital, a Person Familiar With the Effort Said, as It Seeks a Foothold in the Growing Market for Assistants With Artificial Intelligence.
據熟悉此事的人士稱，人工智能助手企業You.com正在籌集新鮮資本，融資額達5000萬美元，以在快速增長的人工智能助手市場中尋求立足之地。
The Near-Finished Series B Funding Would Value the Four-Year-Old Company Behind You.com, Susea Inc, Between $700 Million and $900 Million, the Person Told Reuters.
接近完成的B輪融資將爲四年曆史的You.com公司（即Susea公司）定價在7億美元至9億美元之間。
After Chatgpt Ignited Interest in You.com's AI-Infused Search Engine in Early 2023, Some of Its Users Began Looking Elsewhere. Microsoft Msft.o Refreshed Its Bing Search Engine With an AI Chatbot of Its Own, While Alphabet's Google Googl.o Added AI-Generated Answers for More Nuanced Queries.
在2023年初，Chatgpt引發了用戶對You.com人工智能搜索引擎的興趣，此後有些用戶開始尋找其他搜索引擎。微軟更新了它自己的必應搜索引擎，添加了一個人工智能聊天機器人，而Alphabet的Google則爲更具體的搜索提供了人工智能生成的答案。Msft.oYou.com在5月擁有1100萬訪客，從全年的網絡訪問量升至今天，但該數字仍低於2023年2月2000萬的峯值，據Similarweb數據顯示。據市場情報公司Sensor Tower稱，截至2024年迄今，該應用程序下載量下降了69％，而去年同期爲69％。其他人工智能初創公司也面臨着類似的困境。Googl.o在此背景下，總部位於加利福尼亞州帕洛阿爾託市的公司已經將You.com變成了一個人工智能助手，專注於生產力和互聯網搜索，其網站顯示。
You.com's 11 Million Visitors in May Reflected a Year-to-Date Rise in Web Traffic, but the Number Was Still Below Its 20 Million Peak in February 2023, According to Similarweb Data. Its App Downloads Have Decreased an Estimated 69% so Far in 2024, Versus the Same Period Last Year, Said Sensor Tower, a Market Intelligence Firm. Other AI Startups Have Faced Similar Headwinds.
Richard Socher，You.com的CEO和前Salesforce首席科學家，在今年早些時候告訴路透社，You.com可以撰寫散文或計算機代碼，並可以在衆多技術中導航，以確定用戶的查詢的正確答案。Socher沒有回應此故事的請求評論。功能強大的人工智能助手市場尚未成熟且競爭激烈。谷歌，微軟，Chatgpt的創建者OpenAI，以及現在的蘋果等大公司都在爲他們的數百萬用戶推出新的代理功能。
Against This Backdrop, the Palo Alto, California-Based Company Has Morphed You.com Into an AI Assistant, One That's Focused on Productivity as Well as Internet Search, Its Website Shows.
You.com的高端消費者訂閱按年賬單每月收費15美元，提供跨行業的頂尖人工智能模型以及其他生產力工具。谷歌，微軟和OpenAI的替代訂閱每月收費約20美元。
Richard Socher, Its CEO and Former Salesforce Crm.n Chief Scientist, Told Reuters Earlier This Year That You.com Could Craft Prose or Computer Code, as Well as Navigate a Sea of Technologies to Determine the Right Answer to a User's Query.
其網站顯示，You.com的CEO兼前Salesforce首席科學家Richard Socher表示，You.com可以撰寫散文或計算機代碼，並可以在衆多技術中導航，以確定用戶的查詢的正確答案。前Salesforce首席科學家您.com的CEO和前Salesforce首席科學家Richard Socher告訴路透社，You.com可以撰寫散文或計算機代碼，並可以在衆多技術中導航，以確定用戶的查詢的正確答案。
Socher Did Not Answer a Request for Comment on This Story.
Socher沒有回應此故事的請求評論。
The Market for Powerful AI Assistants Is Nascent and Crowded. Google, Microsoft, Chatgpt's Creator OpenAI, and Now Apple Aapl.o Are Among the Big Names Pushing New Agent-Like Capabilities for Their Many Millions of Users.
功能強大的人工智能助手市場尚未成熟且競爭激烈。谷歌，微軟，Chatgpt的創建者OpenAI，以及現在的蘋果等大公司都在爲他們的數百萬用戶推出新的代理功能。蘋果 Aapl.o是衆多用戶中推出新代理功能的大牌公司之一。
You.com Charges $15 per Month for Its Premium Consumer Subscription When Billed Annually, Giving Access to Top AI Models From Across Industry Plus Other Productivity Tools. Alternative Subscriptions From Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Cost About $20 Monthly.
You.com的高端消費者訂閱按年賬單每月收費15美元，提供跨行業的頂尖人工智能模型以及其他生產力工具。谷歌，微軟和OpenAI的替代訂閱每月收費約20美元。
The Person Familiar With You.com's Fundraising Said Its Sales Are on the Rise. Since January, the Company's Annual Recurring Revenue Has Grown Five Times, the Person Said, Without Specifying the Figure in Dollar Terms. You.com Has Both Consumer and Business-to-Business Subscription Revenue, the Person Said.
熟悉You.com籌資情況的人士表示，You.com的銷售額正在上升。該人士說，自1月以來，該公司的年度經常性收入增長了五倍，但未說明美元金額。該公司有消費者和企業對企業的訂閱收入。
Venture Capital Firm Georgian Is Leading the Fundraising, With Capital Also Provided by Previous Backers of You.com, the Person Said.
創投公司Georgian正在領導籌款，資金也由You.com的前支持者提供，該人表示。
Georgian Representatives Did Not Respond to a Request for Comment.
Georgian代表未回覆置評請求。
(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco; Additional Reporting by Krystal Hu in New York; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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