These Small Startups Are Making Headway On A.i.’s Biggest Challenges

Xayn is a six-year-old A.I. company based in Berlin that specializes in semantic search and recommendation engines. Xayn has pioneered a suite of much smaller models that are better at learning from small amounts of data and surfacing results much faster than a very large language model would. Xayn models are small enough to run on a mobile phone, and in a pilot project for German media company ZDF, Xaynia increased the volume of digital content users watched and the click-through rate compared to the media company’s previous recommendation model, while reducing energy consumption by 98%. Xaynia is 40 times more energy efficient than OpenAI’s Ada 002 and 20 times more energy efficient than Google’s BERT model.