# Diffbot

> Diffbot is an AI company building one of the world's largest knowledge graphs by autonomously crawling, reading, and structuring the public web. Its APIs and LLM turn unstructured pages into machine-readable facts about people, organizations, products, and articles - powering search, sales intelligence, market research, and grounded generative AI.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Menlo Park, California, United States
- **Founders:** Mike Tung (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~31 employees
- **Products:** Knowledge Graph, Extract APIs, Crawlbot, Natural Language API, Diffbot LLM (Diffy)
- **Notable:** Built one of the largest commercial knowledge graphs - over a trillion facts and 10B+ entities., Released the first open-source GraphRAG implementation in January 2025., Powered structured data for DuckDuckGo, Snapchat, AOL, and Bing.

## Products & services

- **Knowledge Graph** — A continuously updated graph of 10+ billion entities and over a trillion facts spanning people, organizations, products, articles, and locations.
- **Extract APIs** — Article, Product, Discussion, Image, Video, and Analyze APIs that turn any URL into structured JSON using computer vision and NLP.
- **Crawlbot** — Distributed crawler for running Diffbot's extraction across entire sites at scale.
- **Natural Language API** — Entity, relationship, and sentiment extraction from raw text.
- **Diffbot LLM (Diffy)** — Open-source GraphRAG model fine-tuned on Llama 3.3 that grounds answers in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph with citations. Demo at diffy.chat.
- **Enhance & LeadGraph** — Sales and market intelligence tools for enriching CRM records and tracking funding events.

## Achievements

- Built one of the largest commercial knowledge graphs - over a trillion facts and 10B+ entities.
- Released the first open-source GraphRAG implementation in January 2025.
- Powered structured data for DuckDuckGo, Snapchat, AOL, and Bing.
- Bootstrapped to profitability on only $13M total funding.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — 50 billion new facts added to the Knowledge Graph, including 30M new organizations and 600M articles.
- **2025-11** — Added LLM-ready markdown output to extraction APIs, including interactive elements.
- **2025-01** — Released Diffbot LLM - open-source GraphRAG model based on Llama 3.3.

## Links

- Website: https://diffbot.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diffbot
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/diffbot
- GitHub: https://github.com/diffbot
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@diffbot
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/diffbot

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Last updated: 2026-06-29
