Zeta Alpha

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Zeta Alpha is the best Neural Discovery Platform for AI and beyond. Use state-of-the-art Neural Search and Generative AI to improve how you and your team discover, organize and share internal knowledge. Make better decisions, avoid reinventing the wheel, make staying in the know effortless, and make an impact with your work faster.

Discovering and Organising data remains a challenge

To really understand what Zeta Alpha does, we need to first understand how humans behave when they want to learn something in this modern world. Whenever faced with a question or need to learn something, people often turn to a search engine platform like Google. With 90 per cent market share, Google is essentially the window to world’s knowledge for a lot of people.

However, if you are a company with lots of data, you can’t just Google your way to access all that information or knowledge. Zeta Alpha is building the enterprise-grade search engine that will help companies to streamline their data and knowledge infrastructure, which is necessary for AI and data science teams.

It is important to understand at this juncture that every company is essentially becoming an AI company now. To become an AI fueled company, there is a need for AI and data science teams, who have the primary job of analysing data to deliver insights that are critical to the success of the business. While big companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook can do this discovery process in-house, there are a number of companies who struggle with data.

In the Netherlands alone, a survey about small and medium enterprises has shown that these companies want to become AI-driven but often struggle with understanding where to start. For such companies, it may become easy to set up an AI team but streamlining the data pipeline will continue to be a challenge. With that in mind, let us look at how Zeta Alpha solves this problem with its product designed with AI and data science teams in mind.

Neural network to aid discovery of knowledge

At the core of what Zeta Alpha is building is deep learning based neural network models, which have seen great advancements thanks to very large language models based in the transformer architecture. Zeta Alpha says this has allowed for “complete rethinking of the basis of document understanding and search.”

With its neural retrieval and discovery technology, Zeta Alpha is able to overcome the lexical gap, also referred to as the keyword gap. In a traditional system, a query is matched by referring the search phrase (or keyword) with keywords added by the authors in their documents. If they don’t match then the search won’t render accurate results. However, Zeta Alpha is able to train its neural network model on very large document collections that understand “prior semantic relationships between words and phrases.”

The neural network also solves the problem faced by traditional systems to understand word order, relationships, and context. With a neural network trained on a large language model, Zeta Alpha says it is able to deliver search results that preserve the meaning implied by the structure of the sentence. A keyword-based search system will never be able to deliver such a result.

Search is just one part of the data equation but the real ability of Zeta Alpha’s tech is to aid discovery. On its website, the Dutch startup makes it relatively easy to understand. For starters, the discovery of existing and new knowledge is provided through the Search API, wherein it offers both keyword-based search as well as the aforementioned neural vector search. This search works both at the document, passage and sentence level, and naturally relies on a number of filters and ranking functions.

The discovery part comes in via the ability to look beyond internal data sources and check external data sources such as “social media mentions, author influence, or code popularity.” The easiest way to understand Zeta Alpha’s discovery system would be to look at Google again. Whenever you search for something on Google, the search giant offers a combined search results first and granular search options like Shopping, News, etc atop.

Zeta Alpha has a feature called ‘Find Similar’ that allows the user to query by example from documents or collections using other search operators and filters. Further, it also has system modules called visual analytics, two-dimensional maps to get a quick overview of a large body of documents. Expert search is a module that allows users to connect with internal or external experts which sounds a lot like LinkedIn.