Sarah Wang

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1,664 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 18 Sep

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The a16z Show · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

So I guess kind of tied to this is I wanted to ask you about how you think about benchmarks and hill climbing.

And I'll say this sort of tongue in cheek, but we've noticed that especially maybe among folks in your space, but also in other spaces, right?

There seems to be...

like benchmark maxing or whatever you want to call it.

And, you know, of course, to no surprise, everyone is always at the top of their own benchmarks.

Exactly.

So and obviously you have this

relentless pursuit of ground truth and also, you know, self-improvement, right?

I think like you're the first to admit, hey, here are the areas we could be better on.

We're trying to improve on a continuous basis.

But how do you internally think about what benchmarks matter?

What is ground truth for you guys in terms of like, hey, we're actually better on this front, but worse on this front?

So you predicted that agentic search will be a bigger business than Google search by the 2030s.

Say more about that.

What trends are you seeing that lead you to believe this?

Will eat all software?

What do you think, and there's some debate on the LLM side, on the training side too, but what do you think is the bottleneck today versus, let's say, three years from now?

I feel like five years is too far to predict.

I think you've said in the past it's no longer intelligence in terms of bottlenecking search.

Is it data, accessible data?

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