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Will Bryk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
626 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

But they change it more to be valuable for the consumer type use cases, which for me, it's like there are so many different use cases that go beyond that.

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

There's like really deeply understanding the Roman Empire, but there's also like finding every competitor to your company.

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

And right now, Google is just not good at that.

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

No matter how many changes they make, like you don't trust Google to find you literally every competitor to your company, whether it's in Europe or Asia.

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

You don't use Google for recruiting.

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

And this announcement doesn't change that.

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

Like you're not going to go, you say, hey, Google, I'm looking for machine learning engineers in San Francisco who have a background at startups because it's not built for that kind of thing.

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

So there is an opportunity to build like a new type of search engine that's meant for extremely like deep, complex queries that businesses really care about and agents really care about.

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

building it from the ground up, basically we were like, in 2021, we could build a better search engine than Google.

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

I don't care how long it takes.

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

I guess we were young, high energy, just like ready to do anything, devote our lives to this.

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

Then there was a thought experiment that really excited me, which is that, wait, I could totally build a better search engine than Google right now.

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

And here's how I would do it.

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

For every query, I would take all the trillion documents on the web and I would run GB3 over it.

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

I would say, does this document match the query?

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

Does this document match the query?

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

And then it would filter it down to the top 10 documents.

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

And that would be better than Google.

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

The problem is that would cost like, you know,

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

$10 billion per query.