Will Bryk
Co-founder and CEO of Exa, former SpaceX intern, obsessed with search and information quality.
“Exa ($250M at $2.2B from a16z) — AI-centered search engine for automated systems and applications.”
“With Exa, like you could search something and then get not just like 10 results or 100 results, but 1,000 results or 10,000.”
Source→“The core thesis of Exa is that agents are a completely different type of 'creature' than human searchers, and building search optimized for humans (as Google has done) is the wrong architecture for the agentic era.”
Source→“Human click data is great for humans when you want to find results that humans click on, which is obvious. However, agents, like, just don't, they don't benefit that much from click... it's interesting that, like, all that click data that Google has accumulated just doesn't really matter for agents. And so it's a whole new ballgame.”
Source→“I would argue that the LLMs are going to get commoditized or are getting commoditized faster than search is. And the reason is because you don't need to run, like, mythos over every cell on your Excel sheet when you're trying to find competitors.”
Source→“Andre Carbethy retweeted it. It was pretty popular on Twitter. It was like this new way to find information.”
Source→“He's very detail-oriented. Like, he gets into details of everything... I do that, too, at Exa... He's very good at memetic, like, names and, like, inspiring through, like, memetic things.”
Source→“Andre Carbethy retweeted it. It's pretty popular on Twitter. It was like this new way to find information. It was the first time people were like, holy cow, it's possible to find things beyond Google.”
Source→“As token costs balloon (Uber overspending, ServiceNow burning their annual budget early), retrieval-augmented small models are the structural fix.”
Source→“That's something Exa is leaning very deeply into, like go-to-market intelligence because we care a lot about it. It's very exciting. It's also very useful to use internally. We have companies to sell to and we have people to hire. So it's been great to dog-food it and give us some advantage.”
Source→“For example, I saw the first landing on the barge... just seeing that, like people coming together to do something magical. Like that was very inspiring and made a big impact on me.”
Source→“With Exa, you could search something and then get not just like 10 results or 100 results, but 1,000 results or 10,000.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.