Contextual AI
| Company type | Privately held company | 
|---|---|
| Industry | Information technology | 
| Founded | 2023 | 
| Founders | Douwe Kiela, Amanpreet Singh | 
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, U.S. | 
| Number of employees | 95 | 
| Website | contextual | 
Contextual AI is an enterprise software company based in Mountain View, California. It develops a platform for building specialized Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) agents for enterprise use. The company was founded in 2023 by Douwe Kiela and Amanpreet Singh, both former AI researchers at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Hugging Face. Douwe Kiela previously led the Meta research team that introduced the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach in 2020.
Contextual AI focuses on enterprise generative AI applications using RAG 2.0 technology, with deployments primarily in the technology, banking, finance and media sectors.