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AI Search Startup Exa Labs Raises $250M At $2.2 Billion Valuation, Led By Andreessen Horowitz

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Exa Labs usage has grown to more than 5,000 businesses since pivoting to an API-first model in early 2023.
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Exa Labs will use new capital to train its next generation of models and expand infrastructure capable of handling hundreds of thousands of searches per second.
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Exa's search tools are used by more than 400,000 developers.
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Competitors built on top of existing search engines will struggle to match Exa's combination of speed, cost efficiency, and retrieval quality.
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Building a perfect search engine will be extremely hard. It is also necessary. Information is critical civilizational infrastructure for our new AI reality. If we can build perfect search so that every AI has the highest quality information, then every human will too.
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AI-driven search demand will surge as more autonomous agents come online.
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Exa's crawlers index more than 500 billion URLs and the company has developed its own vector database to support high query volumes.
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Different AI agents require different retrieval behavior — from go-to-market tools needing broad coverage of people and organizations, to coding assistants relying on precise results from repositories and technical documentation.
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