Inside You.com’s Plan to Outthink Google and OpenAI

What happens when the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce builds a search engine for enterprises?

In this episode, Richard Socher (CEO) and Bryan McCann (CTO) of You.com reveal how they’re reinventing enterprise search and agentic workflows with their latest product, Ari—a deep research assistant that goes far beyond fast facts.

We explore:

• How You.com is going deeper than Google and faster than Perplexity
• Why consumer LLMs aren’t enough for serious enterprise work
• How a Stanford summer project led to one of the most important AI research breakthroughs
• Where Socher and McCann see AGI actually emerging—and why simulation may be the next frontier

00:00 Trailer

01:56 Introduction

03:41 Richard and Bryan's Meeting

09:52 Foundations of search

12:33 Deep research agent

13:49 How You.com stands out

16:03 Custom agents

18:15 ARI use cases

19:43 Going slow to go fast

24:00 Models under the hood

26:00 AGI workflows

29:11 Adoption

33:34 Complicated workflows

36:45 AGI - are we there?

46:20 How to compete as a startup

53:32 Being right

56:23 Outro