News is spreading on LinkedIn about a translator that translates in the style of a social network. It's about Kagi Translate, based on AI. And it's a pretty cool feature, if not for one "but". The translator is part of the ecosystem of products of the American company Kagi, which cooperates with Yandex.
News is spreading on LinkedIn about a translator that translates in the style of a social network. It's about Kagi Translate, based on AI. And it's a pretty cool feature, if not for one "but". The translator is part of the ecosystem of products of the American company Kagi, which cooperates with Yandex.
Kagi Translate now has a translation option like LinkedIn Speak, which allows you to rework text in the style of the social network.
Ukrainian users have started testing an interesting new feature and sharing the results on LinkedIn. However, some still mentioned the connection with Russian Yandex.
Kagi was founded in 2018 in Palo Alto, California, according to the company’s blog. Until 2023, the project was funded solely by the founder, Vladimir Prelovac, who is originally from Yugoslavia. The company has since raised $2.5 million from nearly a hundred angel investors.
Kagi has two main products: Kagi Search, a fast and private search engine, and Orion Browser, a fast WebKit-based browser.
Also, beyond them, a whole ecosystem of products is being created, such as Kagi News, Kagi Small Web, Kagi Summarizer, and FastGPT. As well as Kagi Translate, which now has the LinkedIn Speak function.
However, Kagi has some ties to the Russian Yandex.
On November 19, 2024, Kagi image search updates were released .
“Our image search has become even better with the addition of two new sources: Yandex Image Search (widely recognized as one of the best image search services) and Openverse (a huge collection of open-source images). Kagi takes the hard work out of it so you don’t have to,” the update states.
In addition, 2% of Kagi's expenses are made up of Yandex, and Vladimir Prelovats is not going to change this.
Kagi’s founder stated in 2024: “The job of a search engine is to provide the most relevant results, period. Kagi succeeds in this precisely because we remain indifferent to world politics. The moment “politics” becomes a factor in search results, I will stop working on the search engine.
Yandex accounts for about 2% of our total spend, and it’s just one of dozens of sources we use. To put that into perspective, removing any single source would degrade search quality for all users, while having minimal economic impact on any particular region.
We set out to fix search, not the world. A truly useful search engine must be unbiased—just as Wikipedia strives for neutrality, or a library doesn’t select books based on current political trends. Users deserve access to the best information, not information filtered through our political lens.
"Every source we remove makes search worse for everyone. If you can't find something in Kagi, you won't find it anywhere — and that's only possible because we put search quality above political considerations."
