AI Roadmap/Layer 11 · 11. AI Applications & Vertical Solutions
11.1

11.1 Knowledge, Search & Creative AIGC

Web-grounded search with precise citations (Perplexity), enterprise knowledge search across SaaS (Glean), and multimodal audio/video creative AI.

Web-Grounded Search & Citation Verification

Multi-step web query decomposition, real-time compliant crawling and reranking, embedding-based factual citation attribution, and hallucination suppression.

🏢 Companies
Perplexity AIOpenAI (SearchGPT)GoogleMicrosoft
🛠️ Tech Stack
PerplexitySearchGPTWeb GroundingQuery DecompositionCitation AttributionFactual ConsistencySearch Engine
💼 Roles & Salary
AI Product Engineer、Search Engineer、Full-Stack AI Developer
💰 $200K - $420K / year (AI Search & Groundedness) | ¥550K - ¥1.3M / year
📚 Prerequisites: Information Retrieval Metrics (NDCG/MRR/Recall@K) • Web Scraping Compliance & Content Extraction • LLM-based Cross-Validation & Citation Verification • Complex Query Decomposition & Parallel Retrieval

Enterprise Knowledge Search & Multimodal Creative AI

Cross-SaaS unified data connectors (Glean), strict organizational ACL permission propagation, document summarization, and multimodal audio/video creative AI.

🏢 Companies
GleanNotionOpenAI (ChatGPT)SunoElevenLabsRunway
🛠️ Tech Stack
GleanEnterprise SearchNotion AIACL PermissionSunoElevenLabsRunwayMultimodal Creative
💼 Roles & Salary
AI Product Engineer、Full-Stack AI Developer、Trust and Safety Engineer
💰 $190K - $410K / year (Enterprise Search & Multimodal AI) | ¥500K - ¥1.25M / year
📚 Prerequisites: Enterprise Identity & ACL Security Models (RBAC/ABAC) • SaaS Connector Architecture (Slack/Drive/Jira) • Diffusion Models & Streaming Audio Synthesis • Long-Context Document Summarization Workflows