<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Mumbai-based developer Zaid Mukaddam created an open-source AI search engine platform called MiniPerplx, inspired by Perplexity, with over 60,000 monthly users.</li><li>Groq, an AI hardware company, helped scale the platform with additional computing resources and Alibaba's Qwen AI models after a surge in internet traffic.</li><li>Mukaddam's platform is powered by frameworks like Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and utilizes AI models for user queries as well as Tavily's API and Exa AI for web searches and content analysis.</li><li>Scria AI, the platform, provides detailed insights across various topics and was accepted into the Vercel AI accelerator program to support scaling and interaction with industry leaders.</li></ul>

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