Will Bryk

Search is the gateway to the world's information.

If you can make it perfect, then that has so many downstream positive implications for the world.

If you want to go really deep into some topic, Google fails.

Most people want to understand the world, but they're getting fed information that's just misleading in some way or straight up wrong.

And if everyone had information that was accurate, most reasonable people would be reasonable.

The world of agents searching is just completely different from human searching.

An agent doesn't just want 10 pieces of information.

It wants everything.

With Exa, you could search something and then get not just 10 results or 100 results, but 1,000 results or 10,000.

How have we, a team that has always been below 100 people, been able to build a search engine that's better than Google in all sorts of ways?

Well, it's because...

For most of the internet era, search was built for humans.

But AI agents search differently.

They need deeper context, more complete information, and the ability to navigate far more complex questions than a traditional search box was designed to answer.

That shift is creating an entirely new set of challenges around retrieval, knowledge discovery, and how information is organized online.

Sarah Wang speaks with Exa co-founder and CEO Will Brick about search, AI agents, and the future of information retrieval.

Yeah, yeah, sure.

So I would say it's a life mission.

So since I was a kid, I've cared about finding the highest quality knowledge, right?

I was obsessed.