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Algolia buys Velou to add AI product-data enrichment beneath its retail search

Velou's six-person team joins Algolia, whose search platform handles nearly two trillion queries a year. The startup's multimodal AI turns catalog photos and text into structured product attributes that shoppers and AI agents can search on.