Ouch.
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.
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.
>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?
I would rather have exected they make a deal with OpenAI or Anthropic, ... and use one of their models at discount while improving the search functionality.
Congratulations to the team though, for what it's worth I really liked the product.
