search on steroids
weekly startup spotlight: exa 🔎
traditional search engines are designed for human users, often returning cluttered or irrelevant results that are challenging for ai agents to parse effectively. exa, a startup founded in 2021, solves this by providing a specialized search infrastructure that delivers machine-readable data, which enables ai agents to act on accurate and live information.
exa basically functions as an ai-native search engine and api that allows developers to integrate advanced search, web crawling, and deep research capabilities right into their applications. the platform uses a proprietary search model (distinct from keyword-based search) that is trained to retrieve and extract relevant and context-rich content from the web while filtering out noise. it also provides quick apis that return data in structured formats, allowing ai agents to get tasks done with minimal token usage.
recently, exa raised a $250 million series c with a valuation of $2.2 billion. to date, the company has served 400,000+ developers and notable customers like cursor and hubspot.
today’s drops 🔎
apply to be a paid vibe coding mentor for this summer camp
business analyst summer internship @ caltech
$100k in prizes for this ai hackathon in sf on june 19th