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Moroccan founder raises $4.2M for her YC-backed startup building the next layer of AI search
ZeroEntropy raises $4.2 million from YC, Initialized, to help models and agents retrieve relevant data quickly, accurately, and at scale.
The San Francisco-based startup, co-founded by CEO Ghita Houir Alami and CTO Nicolas Pipitone, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding to help models retrieve relevant data quickly, accurately, and at scale. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grabs data from external documents and has become a go-to architecture for AI agents, whether it’s a chatbot surfacing HR policies or a legal assistant citing case law. L-R: Nicolas Pipitone (CTO) and Ghita Houir Alami (CEO) Image Credits: ZeroEntropyAt its core is its proprietary re-ranker called ze-rank-1, which the company claims currently outperforms similar models from Cohere and Salesforce on both public and private retrieval benchmarks.
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