We have reached a place in the AI Jeevan cycle where we are looking at a lot of “ex meat y” applications. various Companies For example, “AI Tiktok” apps are already released. Now, Berlin- and New York-based Startup DETA is marrying AI browsers and something like Google’s notebooklm in a new knowledge management app called Surf.
DITA SurfWhich is being launched in beta today, is both a browser and a research tool that allows you to make notebooks on various subjects. You can use AI to get a subject of a certain subject based on your prompt. Then you will find a summary report on a subject in an assumption-style document, which you can edit.
Since the core application is a browser, you can open the URL and surf the web. When browsing, you can brief and extract the major insight from the web page, PDF and YouTube videos.
Users can refer to several tabs of AI Chatbot, use them as a reference, and ask questions around them. Additionally, the DETA can generate surf code, so you can ask the tool to make a mini app, interactive graph or chart for your notebook. You can also add any output from AI to a particular notebook.
Most modern-day AI-Browsers such as Perplexity’s Comet, Browser Company’s Dia, and Opera Neon allow users to use tabs as reference to users. And some of them also have the ability to generate small snipites of the code.
DETA, which was established in 2019, was set to create a new operating system using an infinite white canvas. However, The company sunset the product in 2023And started working on AI browser.
The company’s co-founder, Max Esterbrock, stated that the company discovered different interfaces for a browser, but felt that it was a bad idea to chase this direction.
“We were in Alpha for a year. During that time, we realized that AI browser are landing at the place where they are fundamentally becoming equipment for machines and to navigate hypertexts to navigate hypertexts,” he said.
Eusterbrock said that the startup also thinks that an interface where you cannot edit anything is not a great design for human-masine interaction.
While the product acts like a browser, the startup feels that the notebooklam is a direct competitor. Eusterbrock believes that because the surf provides you a reference with the tab and locally allows the data to work offline on the notebook, it is a better-friendly product for students and researchers.
The company has made the equipment available for free and an image is working on generation facility. Moving forward, it can work towards a premium membership direction that will include characteristics such as cloud backup, cooperation and multi-device client.
In 2023, DETA raised $ 3.6 million in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners, which included System.one, Tomahawk.VC, Tiny.VC, Acequia Capital, Angel Invest and NPhard. Since then, the company has raised $ 500,000 in funding from existing and new investors.
