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Will Bryk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
626 total appearances

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

And you don't want it to have to make like a thousand, like 10,000 keyword queries and still never get to its comprehensive information.

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

You want it to like make a few queries and get comprehensive information.

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

Anyway, so complex queries, toggleable, also like comprehensive results.

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

So this is a thing where it's like, an agent doesn't just want 10 results or 10 pieces of information.

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

It wants everything.

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

Because imagine you're an investor.

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

You don't have to imagine that.

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

If you're an investor and you're looking at biotech companies,

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

you want complete information because you're making very important monetary decisions and you don't want to miss anything.

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

You don't want to have any FOMO.

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

You're missing some critical startup that exists that actually reflects well or badly on the current one you're thinking about.

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

And so you want your agent to have complete information about every topic.

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

So like,

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

With Excel, you could search something and then get not just 10 results or 100 results, but 1,000 results or 10,000.

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

And increasingly, agents are wanting this.

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

You also want lower latency because agents search faster than humans.

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

But at the same time, you want higher latency because certain applications don't care about latency at all.

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

So I think another big thing with serving agents is extreme customizability because we're serving businesses, we're serving agents that are very different.

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

Some want super low latency, some want super high latency, or latency doesn't matter to them.

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

And so it's just a whole, it's like hard to express how different, I have like a list of like 20 different ways like humans and agents are different.