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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, I mean, you could get this from basically estimating the number of searches.

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

So the number of LLM calls and the percentage of those LLM calls that require a search, then the cost of the search, and then you just play it out.

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

And the trend has actually been pretty clear, and we have pitch decks from years ago where we kind of predict where things will go.

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

Maybe we're off by a quarter here or there, but it's pretty...

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

You know, it follows a trend.

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

And so, yeah, if you follow that trend, even conservatively, you get to a massive TAM for agentic search in the 20s.

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

I mean, even before, like, late 2020s and then early 2030s.

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

And basically, like, the...

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

The number, it's hard to express like how many searches will come from agents, right?

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

Like humans on average make, you know, a couple searches a day.

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

But agents, when everyone has a personal assistant and every single software tool you use is going to be checking its work with retrieval.

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

Totally.

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

Like the number of searches is going to be, we say thousands because that is like understandable and groppled people, but really it's going to be millions.

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

It's just going to be like the world's going to be filled with search in a way that the world is filled with electricity.

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

It's like, it's a fundamental infrastructure that powers everything.

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

Like, I think less of search is like perfect information.

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

The world will be filled with like the highest quality information.

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

And so, yeah, I mean, there is a lot of, when the world is filled with something, it's usually a large amount

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

And yeah, if you just play out the numbers, we think it will be bigger than Google ads in 2030.

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

Not that ads won't be a huge part of the world too.