Reddit Plans to Enhance Search with AI-Powered Features

Reddit Plans to Enhance Search with AI-Powered Features

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Reddit is set to launch an upgraded AI-powered search experience in 2025, integrating Reddit Answers to help users navigate and find curated content.

Reddit is preparing to launch an enhanced search experience in 2025, as announced by CEO Steve Huffman. The upgrade aims to assist users in navigating the platform and answering complex questions by integrating a feature called Reddit Answers. This feature will provide curated summaries of relevant responses and threads from across Reddit.

During Reddit's Q4 2024 earnings call, Huffman emphasized the potential of unlocking the vast corpus of information accumulated over two decades of user conversations. The company plans to continue iterating on this product to improve user experience.

Reddit CFO Drew Vollero mentioned that the company is actively recruiting engineers to form a dedicated search team to focus on these new capabilities. This move is part of Reddit's broader strategy to embrace AI, following previous initiatives like AI-powered translation and insights for brands.

Despite a 39% increase in daily active unique users to 101.7 million, Reddit's fiscal Q4 results fell short of investor expectations, partly due to changes in Google's search algorithm. Huffman suggested that integrating search into the platform's onboarding process could enhance growth, retention, and revenue, highlighting the monetization potential of improved search functionalities.

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