You.com

You.com is an AI search engine that pairs traditional web results with AI-generated summaries and citations, aiming to cut down the time spent clicking through links. Instead of a single fixed assistant, it lets users pick from multiple underlying AI models and switch between modes built for different tasks: quick search and summarization, multi-step research with cited reports, and a coding mode that can generate and run snippets. Users can also build custom apps or agents around specific tools and workflows, which gives it more configurability than most search-first AI products.

Its most distinctive feature now is ARI (Advanced Research & Insights), a research agent aimed at business and regulated-industry use cases. ARI pulls from hundreds of sources at once and produces structured reports with citations, charts, and data visualizations in minutes, positioning it against the kind of work normally done by analysts or consultants rather than against casual search queries. This pushes You.com further from a pure search engine and toward an AI research and agent platform, while still keeping the everyday search and chat experience as an entry point.

You.com fits people who want more transparency and control over which AI model is doing the work, plus users who need sourced, exportable research output rather than a conversational answer alone. It competes with Perplexity and other AI search tools, but its emphasis on model choice, custom agents, and enterprise-oriented research reporting gives it a somewhat different niche, even though it remains less widely used day-to-day than the biggest players in AI search.