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Linkup sells a web search API that lets AI applications and agents pull real-time, structured information from the web.
Linkup is a French company that sells a web search API — a piece of plumbing that lets AI applications and agents look things up on the live internet. When a chatbot or an AI agent needs current facts rather than whatever it memorized during training, it calls Linkup, which searches the web and hands back clean, structured results the AI can actually use.
The problem it solves is simple. AI models are frozen in time and prone to making things up. A search API gives them fresh eyes: it fetches real pages, extracts the useful bits, and returns them in a tidy format. Customers — developers building AI products, agents, and research tools — pay for that access, typically per search or through a subscription, because wiring up reliable real-time search themselves is slow, expensive, and a pain to maintain. Linkup is one of several players chasing this market. Search giants like Google and Microsoft with its Bing service already offer search tools for AI builders, and newer search API startups compete on freshness, structure, and ease of integration. Linkup's pitch leans on delivering real-time, structured web data rather than raw links, which saves developers a lot of cleanup work.
The company is private and based in France, part of a wave of European AI infrastructure startups selling the unglamorous but essential pipes that AI products run on. Its bet is that as more AI agents go to work on real tasks, demand for fast, reliable, machine-readable web search will keep growing — and that whoever owns that layer becomes quietly indispensable.
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