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Startups have raised $1B+ to crack Enterprise AI search. Now someone open-sourced it for FREE. The video below shows a self-hosted Slack assistant that answers your questions by searching across all your company's tools in a single query. It's built on top of Airweave, an open-source context retrieval layer...

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