You.com

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You.com is an American artificial intelligence and search engine startup company.

The company was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher, the former chief scientist at Salesforce, and Bryan McCann, a former NLP researcher at Salesforce.

History

The domain You.com was initially purchased in 1996 by Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff, 24 years before the company was founded in 2020. You.com opened its public beta on November 9, 2021, funded in part by Benioff.

In July 2022, You.com received Series A funding round led by Radical Ventures with participation from Time Ventures, Breyer Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Day One Ventures. In September 2024, You.com received Series B funding led by Georgian. In September 2025, You.com raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5 billion valuation, achieving unicorn status.

In 2023, You.com pivoted from its consumer focused search engine products to artificial intelligence tools. Around January 2023, the company was incorporating AI chats into its search engine.

Products

On December 23, 2022, You.com launched YouChat, making it the first search engine to launch a large language model-based chatbot with live web results alongside its responses. Later versions of YouChat included YouChat 2.0 in February 2023 and YouChat 3.0 in May 2023. A paid subscription, YouPro, followed in June 2023. In February 2025, You.com launched ARI (Advanced Research and Insights), a deep research agent.

Reception

You.com was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2022.

You.com's ARI (Advanced Research & Insights) feature was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2025.