January 26, 2025

Celebrating 50,000 Custom Agents Made on you.com

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Today, you.com is proud to announce that our global community has hit the incredible milestone of creating 50,000 Custom Agents to boost their productivity. By tailoring generative AI with LLMs for their specific needs around research, content creation, and automated workflows, more and more businesses are relying on you.com’s Custom Agents as their most advanced and trusted AI assistant to supercharge their workflows.

A quick trip down memory lane

Founded by leading AI research scientists Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, you.com launched the world's first consumer-facing LLM connected to the web, with citations, bringing more trust and accuracy to AI chatbots in 2022.

Less than a year later, we transitioned from a search engine to a generative AI assistant while growing usage by 10x - reflecting the significant shift in consumer behavior that was already happening, but remaining grounded in our search and NLP roots: we understand the intent behind a question.

Then, you.com released a first-of-its-kind self-serve API, bringing real-time web search and accuracy to any LLM and AI chatbot, marking an expansion into the B2B space.

While you.com’s core suite of AI Agents - Smart, Genius, Research, and Create - were each designed to deliver answers with unparalleled accuracy and transparency, they’re just the beginning of what you.com can do.

You.com Custom Agents are revolutionizing the world of AI assistants

Today, you.com enables you to take things further with the ability to create your own Custom AI Agents. By selecting your preferred AI model, providing specific instructions, and identifying the sources and capabilities ideal for your own workflows, you can have a one-of-a-kind agent specific to your business and research needs. Custom Agents are not only at your fingertips; you can share them with teams for enhanced collaboration across your company. (Check out our ”Best Practices for Creating Custom Agents” to get started.)

With 50,000 (and growing!) Custom Agents now built with user-specific instructions and you.com’s cutting-edge capabilities (like live web access and Advanced Research & Reasoning), these personalized AI agents are revolutionizing how businesses operate.

Learn exactly how you can increase your productivity with Custom Agents - and how leaders across industries are already leveraging their own Custom Agents on you.com to meet their specific business needs - by checking out our whitepaper here.  

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to the growing you.com community of users for trusting us to securely and accurately increase your productivity. Our mission is to help you get the information you need in today’s fast-paced digital world. Stay tuned for more to come!

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