[bbourn]

This is exactly how and why we built www.Zenode.AI. It's a search engine for electronic components that uses and AI model trained to read the component datasheets

AI is the perfect tool for this task, but LLMs alone aren't capable of doing this. It took us multiple algorithms working together to read all the tables, equations, footnotes, etc. Now we've extracted the information from over 10M datasheets, and created a parts database that you can search across using natural language.

We're actually planning to hit Show Hacker News this week or next, just ironing out a few details first!

[savorypiano]

Pardon, but am I not seeing what you are seeing? I tried many searches and they all failed abysmally. Even basic queries like a regulator type of certain output - both the type and output could be wrong. Not sure how it's ready to launch.

[pera]

Thank you, this looks very useful; I've tried it a few hours ago and it was not returning results (or it was taking a very long time to load) but will try again next week. Good luck with your launch.

[bbourn]

Damn, yeah, we added the ability for the AI to set filters based on the input over the weekend and it has definitely slowed things down. We've got a rust script thats going out today to speed things up and add more functionality (like giving you the count of parts that each value in a filter is associated with), that should speed things up pretty dramatically....

Thanks for the try though, we'll definitely be improving this dramatically over the next few weeks!