Jeffrey Wang
@wangzjeff
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cofounder @exaailabs prev SPC, Plaid, Harvard
San Francisco
Joined January 2020
We raised $85M to continue building the best search engine for AIs. Why a search engine for AIs? LLMs are trained on the internet but they can’t memorize it - they need search. But traditional search engines were built for humans. LLMs are now ingrained in thousands of popular
We raised $85M in Series B funding at a $700M valuation, led by Benchmark. Exa is a research lab building the search engine for AI.
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Vibe coding productivity boosts are not evenly distributed. My estimates for Exa are: - Full stack product engineering: 1.5x-2.5x - Frontend, internal tooling: 5x-10x - Hard, low levels systems programming: 1.2x-1.5x - Reliability and infrastructure: 0.5x (mistakes here cost a
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Connect your apps to AI on your terms. Introducing Turbo MCP, our enterprise-friendly, self-hosted MCP security platform and connectivity gateway. If you're looking to bring AI productivity to your workplace, Turbo MCP was designed with partners in highly-regulated industries,
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SF @eightsleep users, does it do anything for you? I feel like SF's evening temperature is already basically perfect for sleep (60F-ish)
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every wedding rsvp platform I've used is so bad. people should just vibe code their wedding invite site with lovable, it's already named for the use case!
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exa now works in: e2b langchain n8n crewai toolhouse make gumloop jan
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claude code executing applescript to control computer is next level
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nvm it's ⌘> 😍
wait is there actually no keyboard shortcut for "ask chatgpt" in atlas? 😢
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wait is there actually no keyboard shortcut for "ask chatgpt" in atlas? 😢
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Unironically, @eightsleep doubling as a paging system is a feature not a bug, if you're in tech
I want to specially thank the @vercel team for working around the clock to keep customers safe and available. In fact, I was sleeping, it was 2am~ ish, and I was alerted about this issue because my internet mattress (which I love, shoutout to @eightsleep) was warm 😅, which led
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Bearish OpenAI takes make no sense to me. ChatGPT has ~1B WAUs that are monetized at basically $0 right now. The last company with this many users that people thought was going to burn to the ground because of lack of monetization was Facebook.
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Powered by Exa 2.0!
Websets is now faster and more thorough at creating massive lists of any web data (companies, people, research papers, etc): p50: 25.6s → 17.5s p90: 103.9s → 43.1s
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hey if someone at @OpenAI wants feedback on Apps SDK, I have lots, feel free to message me
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SF is filling up like a gold rush town right now Rental market is so insane that my cofounder has been homeless for almost 3 months Offices moving from Hayes hackerhouses to "The Arena" in the Mission to FiDi high rises, as headcounts increase
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For those unaware, search is undergoing a renaissance. AI triggered of course. AI completely reorients both what search the world needs and what search algorithms are possible. This Exa 2.0 release is part of that story, and it's a sign of where search is going. Search got big
Introducing Exa 2.0 Breakthroughs in our AI research and engineering have enabled us to build both the fastest search API (<350ms) and the highest quality search on the market. Product and technical deep dive below:
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