willbryk

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   Is Google or Exa better for RLing agents?(exa.ai)

   2 points by willbryk 4mo ago|1 comments
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   by willbryk 4mo ago

   Google is the most well known search engine, but there is very little research on how other search providers affect RL outcomes. Turns out Exa reached higher performance with 70% less training compute.
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   Exa-d: How to store the web in S3(exa.ai)

   46 points by willbryk 8mo ago|4 comments
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   by willbryk 1y ago

   stay tuned!
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   by willbryk 1y ago

   https://exa.ai/blog/websets-evals
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   by willbryk 1y ago

   Thanks Artem! That makes sense to specialize for the biggest customers. Yes, a lot of problems in the world would be improved by better search, including dating.
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   by willbryk 1y ago

   This might be possible if you specify geospatial location as an enriched column. The visualization of it as a map though is not supported in the UI, but can be built by giving an LLM access to the Websets API
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   by willbryk 1y ago

   Because Google makes money from ads, they're not actually optimized to build the best general search engine in the world, they're optimized to build the search engine that makes the most from ads, which is correlated with being a
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   by willbryk 1y ago

   There aren't currently any vision LLMs involved. But if you asked for image links, it'd probably find you something!
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Thanks for letting us know - made a Linear ticket
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Mission of Exa has always been to build much better web search. The evolution has been: - 2022: Consumer-facing embeddings search (back when we were known as Metaphor) - 2023: Web search for AIs - once the AI ecosystem heated up, we made a
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Thanks for the support - we're getting hug of death though so please bear with us while we scale up!
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Yup exactly! And we expose this as a regular search API as well as in the Websets product.
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Yeah we'd love to make the product as accessible and cheap as possible, but as of state of AI costs of 2025, it's a very expensive product to run and so we have it login gated. If you're willing to lo
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Hm! I'll try this out. Sometimes info like price are hard to parse out because the data may be on ecommerce-style websites that have many crawling protections
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    ty!
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Thanks! Let us know how you find it :)
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    By cruft cleaner, do you mean cleaning the HTML well? Right now, we do 2 things to help with that, a pretty robust parsing stack as well as a "summaries" feature that returns an LLM-generated query-biased text output for every web
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Thanks!
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    Not a pivot - Websets is just a new product! Mission of Exa has always been to build much better web search. The evolution has been: - 2022: Consumer-facing embeddings search (back when we were known as Metaphor) - 2023: Web search for AIs
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    We're a startup, so most of our resources go towards use cases that our users care most about. So the search should work best for - people, companies, papers, high quality written content (e.g., blogs, news). It should work well at mor
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    by willbryk 1y ago

    We render JS and then parse pages, but that process will definitely parse out Adobe Analytics tags unfortunately. Noting this though!
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    Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

    412 points by willbryk 1y ago|133 comments
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    Show HN: Exa (YC S21) – embeddings search agent with >20x recall than Google(websets.exa.ai)

    28 points by willbryk 2y ago|4 comments