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Will Bryk

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The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

So

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

Every agent at some point, agents are like humans.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

At any point when you're coding, or when humans used to code, you would have to look up information, right?

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

Because you want the most recent technical documentation, or you might look at a blog for inspiration.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

And so agents are very similar.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

In particular, they really want the freshest information so that every line of code they write does not have some critical error.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

And especially with coding agents, the stakes are so high that, again, every extra nine of quality matters.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

So these coding engines are very intelligent right now.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

But in terms of retrieval quality, they've been in the dark ages or the dark ages of like the early 2000s in terms of search quality.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

But like search can be way better over coding.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

You know, we're talking technical documentation.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

We're talking SDKs.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

Just like as like perfect.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

perfect retrieval over the syncs.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

That was our goal.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

And so we're not yet perfect, but we're extremely good at search over any sort of coding material.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

And so, yeah, so, you know, when, you know, a bunch of coding agents try us, like Cognition, for example, we've talked about, has tried us, like we power Devin now, and they've just found when they tested it that it just makes Devin way better, way more accurate, make way fewer mistakes, which really matters.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

And this will just continue.

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

By the way, like, you can also think about coding agents as just like

The a16z Show
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

every agent is going to want to do everything.