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Will Bryk

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626 total appearances

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

Yeah, it's great.

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

He had a tweet about this a couple, I think a couple years ago, where it was like the trend is towards like small, smaller raw intelligence modules using tools.

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

And that trend will like, that's an important trend.

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

Because like, you have, you know, you have a limited, like the cost of the model is determined by the number of weights.

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

That, you know, determines the cost of the inference.

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

And if those weights are... If you're wasting those weights on, like, all sorts of information about the world, like the capital of France or, you know, this random blog that you read, like, you're just wasting tokens.

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

Sorry, you're wasting weights.

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

Those weights should be focused only on, like, intelligent processing.

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

And you could probably get to models that are, like, one billion, even less than a billion parameters that are extremely hyper-intelligent and completely...

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

unknowledgeable.

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

It's like Einstein who never saw the world.

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

That's kind of like the way I think about it.

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

And then it uses tools that are very cheap and efficient.

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

And that's a much more efficient world that will help solve this compute shortage that is affecting everybody.

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

I mean, the rally is definitely starting.

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

I don't have the exact... It's like trends are everywhere.

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

When does it become noticeable?

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

Yeah, I would say by end of 2026, it's very noticeable.

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

Yeah, at a high level, a lot of the big ideas in training LLMs apply equally well to training search models.

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

So, for example, we do pre-training of embedding models.