Phind

Phind is an AI-powered search and coding assistant founded in 2022 in San Francisco by Michael Royzen and Justin Wei. The service combines a proprietary LLM with live web retrieval to generate cited, code-focused answers optimized for technical research and development.

Phind is popular among developers as a Google alternative for programming questions and documentation. The company launched Phind-70B, its own open-weight model, as an alternative to GPT-4 on code tasks.

Phind raised a seed round led by Paul Graham and other angels, with approximately $12 million in total funding. The company remains small and lean.