Conference Presentation, Product Demonstration, Keynote
Perfect Search, Built for AI Agents | Will Bryk, Exa | RAISE Summit 2026
- By the end of the current year, AI agents are projected to search the web more than humans, with usage expected to reach 1,000 times human volume in a few years as the global search ecosystem shifts toward agents.
- Perfect search is anticipated to be achieved in less than five years, potentially enabling billions of people to access near-perfect search tools by the 2028 presidential election to ensure an informed electorate.
- The speaker warns that without perfect search, society faces a trajectory toward a 2035 dystopia characterized by manipulation due to incomplete understanding or a state of "misinformed anarchy" where tools fail to filter trillion-document web data effectively.
- ExaConnect aims to unlock value from non-public data sources such as credit card, transaction, shipping, and satellite data, allowing providers to set their own pricing within a new market structure.
- Combining public web data with private sources like Similarweb and Crunchbase is expected to achieve 99.9999% accuracy rates, which is deemed critical for billion-dollar investment decisions.
- Future agents will be filled with information comparable to the ubiquity of electricity, processing massive data volumes while constantly researching the web way more than humans if AI assistants are widely adopted.
- The company plans to build the world's fastest search engine with latency targets of one millisecond or negative milliseconds to serve voice agents, while reducing downstream LLM costs by extracting only the 100 "juiciest" tokens per document instead of 10,000.
- Accelerating operational pace is planned such that every quarter or every two quarters at Exa, the work output equals the total volume completed in the previous five years.
- Exa intends to become the highest quality information source for AI agents, enabling complex queries impossible on current platforms, such as identifying all YC-funded startups working on AI, to facilitate high-quality decision-making by individuals and societies.