Ex-Yandex Team Raises $26M Seed for AI-Native Knowledge Index
Scobleizer · x · 2026-08-26
KeenableAI announced a $26M Seed round led by Accel and Conviction. Built by the team behind Yandex Search, it aims to create an AI-native index of human knowledge to address the mediocrity of current model answers. The Web Search API and Web Query Language are now live, enabling models and agents to query, reason over, and continuously learn from the living web at scale.
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