Samsung Backs Scholarly AI Bot Serving Students and Academics
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Liner, an AI search engine for students and researchers, has raised $29 million from investors including Intervest, Atinum Investment and Samsung Venture as it builds out its business in specialized information retrieval.
The Seoul-headquartered AI startup’s biggest and fastest-growing market is in the US, where it has 10 millions users across universities like UC Berkeley, Texas A&M, and the University of Southern California. The vast majority of its paying users are in higher education, and about two-thirds are in the US, founder and Chief Executive Officer Luke Jinu Kim said in an interview.