Onyx develops an open-source AI chat platform designed to connect directly to a company's existing documents, applications, and personnel. The platform ingests and syncs information from workplace tools such as Google Drive and Slack to provide instant, cited answers grounded in a company's internal knowledge. The core business is building an enterprise application layer for large language models (LLMs) to make generative AI accessible and useful within corporate environments.
Technical work at Onyx spans Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), hybrid search, contextual retrieval, knowledge graphs, and natural language processing. The company's primary product, the Onyx AI Chat Platform, is open-source, offering full transparency and the option for self-hosting. A cloud-hosted version, Onyx Cloud, is also available. The platform emphasizes security, maintaining SOC 2 Type II compliance and GDPR support.
Onyx is backed by Y Combinator and leading investors including partners from Khosla Ventures and First Round Capital. The platform is trusted by over 1,000 teams, according to the company.
