AI Weekly Malaysia

Keenable, founded by former Yandex search lead Andrey Styskin and AI scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with $26M in seed funding led by Accel. The company has built a web search index of 100B+ documents with an API already in production at undisclosed AI labs and inference providers, positioning itself as a cost-efficient web-scale retrieval layer optimized for AI agents rather than human search behavior.

Why: If you're building AI agents that need live web retrieval, Keenable represents a new infrastructure option beyond rolling your own crawling/indexing or relying on general-purpose search APIs. The core claim — that purpose-built index structures can dramatically reduce serving costs at web scale — is worth evaluating if your agent pipeline has meaningful retrieval costs, though the lack of disclosed customers makes it hard to verify production readiness.