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Will Bryk

05/10/25

@ EO

Exa understands the meaning behind queries, allowing us to find relevant information even when traditional search engines fail to match keywords, such as identifying a rocket company in San Francisco.

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Building AI Search Engine for the GPT-5 Era | Will Bryk, Exa

@ EO

Building AI Search Engine for the GPT-5 Era | Will Bryk, Exa

05/10/25

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Will Bryk

05/10/25

@ EO

The goal of Exa is to create a search engine that understands user queries at a deep level, similar to how GB3 interacts with users.

Will Bryk

05/10/25

@ EO

At Exa, we apply a scaling hypothesis for search, believing that increasing data and compute will enhance our search engine's capabilities, unlike traditional search engines that have stagnated.

Will Bryk

05/10/25

@ EO

AI applications are emerging everywhere, and they all require effective search capabilities, which is where Exa can provide significant value.

Will Bryk

05/10/25

@ EO

Exa was launched in November 2022, designed specifically for AI applications that require knowledge retrieval.

Y Combinator Cast

09/22/23

@ Y Combinator

AI excels at semantic search, allowing it to find relevant information from arbitrary text, which was challenging before.

Will Bryk

05/10/25

@ EO

Persistence was crucial in developing Exa; without it, we might have given up after six months of challenges in creating a functional search engine.

Will Bryk

05/10/25

@ EO

We aim to achieve perfect search over the web, ensuring users receive exactly the information they seek, and we help companies integrate this high-quality knowledge into their applications.

Aravind Srinivas

02/22/25

@ Y Combinator

Perplexity is designed to be a more intelligent search engine than Google, particularly useful in specific scenarios.

Isa Fulford

05/08/25

@ Sequoia Capital

Deep research is capable of handling complex queries that traditional search methods struggle with, such as finding specific markets based on multiple constraints.