PropensityAI vs Yahoo Scout

PropensityAI combines retrieval and reasoning to answer questions across web pages, documents, and media with concise inline citations. It links claims to sources, flags uncertainty, and can decline when evidence is insufficient. Image analysis includes OCR, captioning, visual question answering, and structured extraction. Audio tools transcribe, identify speakers, summarize, and extract tasks. Video search locates scenes and spoken content with time-range citations. Users can query research PDFs and citations, then compare methods, results, and limitations. The maker describes connectors for shared drives, wikis, ticketing systems, and internal documents. Starter costs nothing, needs no sign-up, and allows up to 16 sources and one file per query. Local packages cost €8,000 as a one-time purchase for 30B Science & Logic or 30B Software Engineering, and €20,000, paid once for 130B General Intelligence. Team and Enterprise plans add shared connectors, controls, analytics, on-premises or VPC deployment, governance, and support. Enterprise can run local systems inside customer infrastructure, including air-gapped environments. The site says private queries and uploads are not used to train foundation models.

Yahoo Scout is an AI answer and discovery engine that draws on Yahoo properties, licensed content partners, and the wider web. It returns summaries, explanations, and other responses with visuals, context, citations, and links to sources. Example tasks include planning, brainstorming, creating, and comparing. Follow-up questions stay in threads and use earlier messages for context. Scout is available in beta on desktop and mobile web and in the Yahoo Search apps for iOS and Android. It also appears across Yahoo Mail, Search, News, Sports, Shopping, and Finance, with features such as email summaries, shopping recommendations, and stock-related insights. MyScout lets users arrange a homepage with topic and Yahoo update tiles. Many features work without an account, while signing in unlocks personalization and saved preferences; a Yahoo account is required to view current chat threads. Yahoo says Scout is intended for adults and can make mistakes, and advises against relying on it for professional advice. The free service has no paid subscription requirement at launch.