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That's a surprise given they did a Launch HN 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548

foundarium 10mo ago
That "launch" was when they introduced a feature that made their service unusable. I wonder if they had stuck with the unintrusive UI if they would have made it. From the outside it looks like they would have benefitted from having Bill Hicks on their staff to answer whatever project manager was riding the designers to keep justifying their paychecks by adding more and more noisy features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-fq8Feqfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-fq8Feqfo
nicce 10mo ago
Maybe they have come to hard conclusion that it is unsustainable without Google/Meta/Microsoft level funding. Model prices just keep increasing while old models are removed. Subscription is not enough?
usefulposter 10mo ago
>With Phind 3, we create a "personal internet" for you >We think that this current "chat" era of AI is akin to the era of text-only interfaces in computers. >The new Phind Fast model is based on GLM-4.5-Air while the new Phind Large model is based on GLM 4.6. So... vaporware that could no longer compete with the big three frontier LLM firms?
hobofan 10mo ago
They also raised $10M at that time. I assume there were conditions to that deal and/or the launch didn't really turn the trajectory around and they saw the writing on the wall. While I admittedly also haven't been using them for quite some time, it's sad to see them shutdown. For me they were the first ones that did web search in AI chat well enough to make AI actually into a useful daily tool.
- ashleyn 10mo ago
  Phind was the first AI search I used as well. But they seemed to be quickly outfoxed by Perplexity. I started using Perplexity after it was recommended to me as having fewer hallucinations - now it can integrate its tools with SOTA models like Opus.

foundarium 10mo ago

That "launch" was when they introduced a feature that made their service unusable. I wonder if they had stuck with the unintrusive UI if they would have made it. From the outside it looks like they would have benefitted from having Bill Hicks on their staff to answer whatever project manager was riding the designers to keep justifying their paychecks by adding more and more noisy features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-fq8Feqfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-fq8Feqfo

nicce 10mo ago

Maybe they have come to hard conclusion that it is unsustainable without Google/Meta/Microsoft level funding. Model prices just keep increasing while old models are removed. Subscription is not enough?

usefulposter 10mo ago

>With Phind 3, we create a "personal internet" for you >We think that this current "chat" era of AI is akin to the era of text-only interfaces in computers. >The new Phind Fast model is based on GLM-4.5-Air while the new Phind Large model is based on GLM 4.6. So... vaporware that could no longer compete with the big three frontier LLM firms?

hobofan 10mo ago

They also raised $10M at that time. I assume there were conditions to that deal and/or the launch didn't really turn the trajectory around and they saw the writing on the wall. While I admittedly also haven't been using them for quite some time, it's sad to see them shutdown. For me they were the first ones that did web search in AI chat well enough to make AI actually into a useful daily tool.

ashleyn 10mo ago
Phind was the first AI search I used as well. But they seemed to be quickly outfoxed by Perplexity. I started using Perplexity after it was recommended to me as having fewer hallucinations - now it can integrate its tools with SOTA models like Opus.