ZeroEntropy is joining Notion

Summary

Notion announces it has acquired ZeroEntropy, whose team will join Notion. In less than two years, ZeroEntropy built high-efficiency training and inference for task-specific models using custom kernels, an inference stack, and model-specialization recipes. As a Notion customer, its reranker made unified search up to 30% faster, cut reranking latency by 85%, maintained constant answer quality, and lowered inference cost. ZeroEntropy has also trained zembed-1 and zerank-2 and published the zELO method; founder and CEO Ghita Houir Alami will lead Notion’s newly formed Model Research team. The acquisition supports Notion’s goal of delivering AI that is fast, affordable, and tailored to specific work for businesses of every size.

Takeaways

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   ZeroEntropy’s reranker made Notion’s unified search up to 30% faster and reduced reranking latency by 85%.

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   The reranker maintained constant answer quality while lowering inference cost and replacing offerings from larger competitors.

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   ZeroEntropy trained the zembed-1 and zerank-2 models and published the zELO method.