Vectara aims to develop a stable conversational search using generative AI.

AI-powered conversational search platform Vectara has announced new capabilities designed to enhance generative AI for business data. The Santa Clara, California-based start-up has added summarising functions for generative AI and improved its grounded generation features, which aim to reduce the risk of artificial intelligence hallucinations, to improve search accuracy. Vectara’s technology combines AI-based large language models, natural language processing, data integration pipelines and vector techniques to create a neural network that can be optimised for search. The company has recently closed a seed funding round of $28.5m, and is led by Amr Awadallah, previously co-founder and CTO of big data vendor Cloudera.