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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

So that's one problem.

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

There aren't that many standard third-party retrieval evals, and they've been, like, benchmarked.

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

And they're not really actually good representations of agentic search, like what agents actually need.

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

And so it is a problem in the industry where, like, customers can't really know what is true, which is sad.

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

It also demonstrates the need for a really good search engine to distinguish what is true.

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

Yeah.

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

It's just another example.

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

But yeah, I mean, the ground truth for customers is their own A-B tests.

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

And so when we do A, like literally they are testing us versus other providers on their use case.

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

And if they have enough data to do A-B tests, that's the best.

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

Often they make their own evals.

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

So sophisticated customers will make their own evals.

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

Super sophisticated customers will run A-B tests.

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

And then like customers who just want something might just like look at evals that are published online.

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

But certainly for the sophisticated customers when they test us,

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

it becomes a lot clearer who's like on the top.

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

But yeah, we want to improve this ecosystem.

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

We want to be like the research lab that like helps improve the ecosystem and like publishes things.

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

And even if we're not at the top, we want to show.

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

And so you'll see more coming out there.