Exa

Exa: AI-Powered Web Search and Data Extraction Platform

Exa is an AI research lab focused on redesigning web search for the AI era. Their platform offers advanced tools that enable AI applications to access and utilize high-quality web data effectively.

Key Offerings:

Exa API:

Provides AI applications with access to real-time, high-quality web data through meaning-based search.

Features include search, content retrieval, and direct answers to queries.

Designed to improve the relevance and factual accuracy of AI model outputs by grounding them in current web information.

Websets:

An AI sourcing agent that utilizes Exa’s web-scale vector search to find results based on meaning.

Each result is verified by AI agents to ensure accuracy.

Useful for professionals in sales, recruiting, investing, and research who require extensive, verifiable data.

Recent Developments:

In July 2024, Exa secured $22 million in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA?s venture capital arm) and Y Combinator. This investment aims to accelerate Exa’s mission to build a search engine tailored for AI applications.