Google Cloud will offer Parallel Web Systems' AI search to Gemini customers. The $2B startup, backed by Sequoia and Khosla, deepens its integration with the search giant.
Google Cloud will offer Parallel Web Systems' AI search technology to customers building agents with the Gemini model, deepening a partnership with the startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
Parallel helps AI agents retrieve information from the web, including material buried inside documents. Traditional search engines rank pages for human readers. Parallel pulls data formatted for machine consumption, a process the industry calls grounding. The startup, valued at $2 billion in April, has raised $230 million from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins.
Agrawal said he started Parallel after becoming convinced that AI agents would eventually search the web far more than humans do. They need a different approach, he told Business Insider. The Google relationship goes beyond distribution, marking what Agrawal called "our deepest technical integration with a hyperscaler model lab to date."
Engineers from both companies have spent recent months connecting their tools so customers don't need to build those links themselves. Google Cloud president and chief revenue officer Matt Renner said the partnership reflects Google's strategy of giving customers choice. Google has its own grounding tools. Businesses may prefer different products depending on the use case, he said.
Parallel remains available on other clouds, including Amazon Web Services. The startup has landed major customers such as the legal AI company Harvey, which uses Parallel's search tools to give its models access to current web information alongside internal client data.
The deal opens Google's vast cloud clientele to Parallel, giving the startup distribution it could not reach on its own. Agrawal founded Parallel about two and a half years ago.
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