LiamHz

head of product r&d @ExaAILabs

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

I spent 500+ hours in Blender making this solarpunk mural of San Francisco for @ExaAILabs

Process breakdown in thread!

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

We created a massive 35-foot mural of future San Francisco for our new office.

This future is being built right now, and it's going to make our city really damn cool 🧵

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@9ofZoe @pschork patrick is so cool
- black belt
- built a pizza oven and sauna
- member of piano makers guild

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@SCButterMeUp @RiftlabTCG @Challengertcg @RunesAndRift @AgitoSwiftly @dunctcg @NoVeggie5 @Mrtoolshed_ @DaemonXGG This looks incredible!

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@Tiny_Fish @ExaAILabs You're setting "maxAgeHours: 0" (always livecrawl) on your requests to Exa! Without that the queries run 10x faster :)

Parallel search is also closer to 4 seconds, so you're making a similar issue there

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@tuanle We composed the music this weekend! @jonahberman24

@9ofZoe did a bunch of motion graphics

I had a lot of fun directing, editing, and animating :)

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

stayed up till 5am trying to make my founder look beautiful in aftereffects

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z.

Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.

[Jeffrey Wang @jeffzwang]

Exa raised $250M at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z, to continue organizing the web for agents:

- Exa now serves search to Cursor, Cognition, Openrouter, 5000+ other companies, 500k+ developers
- We’re SOTA in many important verticals (code, companies, people, news, more very soon)
- We make agents smarter and cheaper by returning 90% less text with little to no tradeoff in RAG quality
- We’re building out web agents that are Pareto optimal on price x performance x latency, possible because we own our search stack fully end to end

We used to tell candidates that without innovation in search, we may live in a world where we have both AGI and fake news. Funnily enough, I think that we’ve now been living in such a world for quite some time. With this funding, we should be able to dramatically improve the state of information in society.

🚀🚀🚀

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We raised $250M in Series C funding at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z.

Exa is a search lab organizing the web's data for agents.

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Exa now reduces input tokens for web agents by 96%.

We trained a text extraction "Highlights" model to dynamically select only the most relevant tokens from a webpage, for a given query. Only 500 tokens of highlights are needed to match the RAG performance of a full 10K token webpage.

We find Highlights to be particularly useful for frontier models like GPT 5.5, where content density enables longer horizon tasks by preventing context bloat. You can use it today by using the "highlights" content type in our API!

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@_vish_k claudes plan.md

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@ExaAILabs excited to doomscroll my monitors

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@_vish_k showdown on switch is gonna be crazy
https://t.co/qRsG13q5B1

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@ron_mizrahio @ExaAILabs with change tracking over time for pages, deduplication, structured outputs and more!

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@darshil @ExaAILabs @p0 we added monitors to websets in june of last year!
https://t.co/WlRwZJArTx

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

We're excited to launch Websets Monitors-- live updates for anything you care about, powered by Exa's neural web index.

Examples 👇

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Introducing Exa Monitors - your agent’s radar for the web

Exa is a search engine built from scratch, and today we're exposing our "update" layer. Simply define what to find and how often - Monitors will return any new information, via webhook.

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@Bill_Chirico @ExaAILabs You can use it in the Exa MCP by passing the tool parameter!

mcp.exa dot ai/mcp?tools=deep_search_exa
https://t.co/4Kt59kWBhw

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@tomzaragoza @ExaAILabs structured corncubes

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@fabioperez @Shekswess @OpenAI The UI is really nice! Might be worth making the OpenGraph link preview image look like this

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@michellehuang42 @donaldjewkes

[LiamHz @LiamHz]

@mankaff_ @ExaAILabs No cache used anywhere!