The Search Engine for the Agentic Web — Will Bryk, Exa

Exa's CEO, William Bryk, discusses the impending AI search boom, predicting machines will soon outpace human searches dramatically. He explains Exa's evolution from a consumer search engine to an API for AI agents, driven by the realization that LLMs need external, 'perfect' retrieval to overcome the limitations of traditional search and combat societal misinformation. Exa leverages neural networks, embeddings, and customized features to provide fast, accurate, and cost-efficient information, with plans for a private data marketplace, aiming to deliver 'a year of research in a second' for AI agents and foster a deeply informed society.