Overview
At Undermind, we're building a search engine that can handle extremely complex questions. It’s geared at experts, like research scientists and doctors, who need to find very specific resources to solve high-stakes problems.
We’ve rebuilt search from the ground up to address this. Our new approach employs high-quality LLMs to adaptively explore a database, mimicking how a human researcher carefully discovers information. This approach dramatically outperforms (by 10-50x) traditional keyword search and other modern AI-based retrieval methods.
Our first target users are the 50 million researchers searching for scientific literature on PubMed and Google Scholar every month. We’ve have paying users across fields like medicine, ML, biotech, finance, and more.
Founders & team
Joshua Ramette
Founder/CEOJosh is the co-founder and CEO at Undermind. He has research experience in gravitational-wave astrophysics (LIGO), particle physics (CERN), atomic physics, and quantum information science. He did his PhD at MIT studying quantum computing architecture design and inventing techniques for generating entangled multi-particle states using atom-light interactions, with 3 patents pending and 6 peer-reviewed publications.
Tom Hartke
Founder/CTOTom is the co-founder and CTO at Undermind. He studied physics at Princeton, then did his PhD in quantum physics at MIT. His thesis was recognized by the American Physical Society as one of the top 4 theses in the field of atomic physics in 2022, and he has published 10 papers in the field, including two in Nature and Science. Tom has deep expertise in building and deploying complex systems.
Founded 2023 · Source ↗
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