Tommy Vo Tran

Member of Technical Staff @p0. Formerly @SandiaLabs @AkunaCapital, @Optiver, CS @UCLA

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

We’re happy to announce that Parallel has raised a $100M Series A to build search, infrastructure, and research tools for AI agents!

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

We're number one on the Search Index!

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

Today, @ArtificialAnlys announced their new Search Index, ranking leading web search APIs across quality, speed, and cost.

On an equal-weighted mean of DeepSearchQA F1, BrowseComp accuracy, and AA-Omniscience accuracy, Parallel is ranked #1.

[Ningshan Ma @maningshan]

as some of you already know last year I basically quit everything in Bay Area to go learn music in Japan full time.
Specifically rock music, I had 0 music experience before and simply went into a store to pick up my first electric guitar.

It was flowing against the gold rush of Al, I ofc had arguments with parents and basically everyone advised me against it.
But I had to do it anyways.

Even now, I still want to tame the world instead of be tamed, I do not want to please the system but rather rebuild it around things I value the most: not meritocratic based on titles or achievements but sincerity towards oneself and those around.

Enjoy this song that I only learnt the night before, due to complications with logistics of organizing my own live show where I was the producer performer and mixer.

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

@p0 is partnered with Google !! WOO!

[Travers @travers00]

parallel is now natively integrated into Google Cloud

grounding with parallel is the only third-party option for agentic web search on the Gemini agent platform, and the only one built native: models, billing, Agent Studio, API

excited about this partnership

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

@bercankilic shift

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

Very proud of our Parallel Search Turbo launch today.
200ms search at the forefront of quality and cost. Try out our live voice demo to see what I mean: https://t.co/MX7Jw8HZvd

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

Introducing Parallel Search Turbo: the fastest and most affordable way to bring the web to your AI.

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

Awesome collaborating with the Parallel (@p0) team to offer better web search for free out of the box in Centaur, our open source AI agent for Slack!

In addition to free web search, Centaur can also use Parallel for deep research in Slack!

Try it out: https://t.co/CtS185zH5f

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

Woot woot! We made it to Times Square!

[Willem @vanlancker]

📍Times Square with @p0 & @Nasdaq

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

We're launching https://t.co/sJZy6VkgJT, a platform for blog writers, traditional news publishers, technical writers, and so much more. Get rewarded for your work in the era of AIs searching the Internet!

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

Today we're launching Index: a platform for content owners to understand how AI agents use their work, and earn revenue when they do.

Our first partners include @TheAtlantic, @FortuneMagazine, @PRNewswire, @PitchBook, @ZoomInfo, @Tracxn, @RocketReachCo, @enigma_data, @fiscal_ai, plus creators @alexeheath, @mariogabriele @azeem, @every, and @packyM.

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

Parallel’s Museum of the Human Web

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

The Museum of the Human Web is now open at 238 King Street in San Francisco.

Can’t make it? See the collection and enter the sweepstakes contest online to win an artifact from the museum:

https://t.co/wVVBHBuadn

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

@erikalee @p0 @carrawu glad you liked it!

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

You can use the Monitor API to send you updates whenever something interesting happens! Market events affecting $META, roommate openings in San Francisco, when tennis rackets go on sale, and so much more! Avaiable at https://t.co/Rj2IvoHO22, through API, or as a Slack bot!

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the Parallel Monitor API.

The web is shifting from pull to push, and agents are coming online. This release marks a major step towards a more proactive model, where the web pushes updates directly to your background agent.

Monitor now includes:
- Lite and Base processors
- Event streams and snapshots
- Rich attribution (Basis) on every event
- Advanced domain filtering
- Interactions for persistent follow-on research

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

https://t.co/NvppKZ6Tzu

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

Shoutout to @khushi_shelat for this awesome Olympiad->outcomes infographic redone with @p0 APIs! We provide state-of-the-art web research. :)

[Khushi Shelat @khushi_shelat]

loved this (spot @paraga at #2!) re-did it e2e with @p0
-- just for fun.

Caught 4 founder name corrections, 23 same-name disambiguations, plus 5 companies with 2+ olympiad-medalist co-founders (Cognition has 3) 765 people with specific biographical context (Akshat Bubna = first Indian IOI Gold; Joshua Brakensiek coauthored the resolution of Keller's conjecture, Erik from Modal build Spotify's recommendation system etc.)

Stack: @p0 ate the entire crawl + scrape + reasoning + enrichment in a single pipeline (Extract API on the canonical archives + Task API for per-row enrichment). @claudeai made the visual. ~20 min wall clock, ~18K profiles crawled + enriched :)

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

Woohoo! Love being a part of @p0

[Parag Agrawal @paraga]

We raised a Series B led by @sequoia at a $2 billion valuation and I’m excited to welcome @andrew__reed to our board.

All our existing investors doubled down: @kleinerperkins, @IndexVentures, @khoslaventures, @firstround, @sparkcapital, @AbstractVC, and @terraincap.

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

Parallel Task API is the most powerful deep research agent on the market.

Today, we’re sharing new state-of-the-art results on DeepSearchQA following improvements to the Task API's agent architecture.

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

Announcing the Museum of the Human Web, coming soon to San Francisco.

Sign up to be one of the first to see it: https://t.co/Rl4bZsttUY

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

Awesome weekend project!

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

We built a completely free CLI agent with @badlogicgames's Pi agent, @ollama (Gemma 4), and Parallel's new free web search MCP.

Check out the blog post to see how to do it yourself: https://t.co/9m9XQEFbGh

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

The best web search for agents is now free.

Upgrade to Parallel's web search tools in any MCP-supported tool or agent, for free, in under 60 seconds.

No account. No API keys. Zero cost.

https://t.co/DZkFGcWqQc

[Tommy Vo Tran @tomvotran]

Try us out now! Go to https://t.co/Rj2IvoHO22 for the UI or grab an API key from there and send a curl:

curl https://t.co/LmWYeTTbuf \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"search_queries": ["Bukhansan National Park"]
}'

[Parallel Web Systems @p0]

We just shipped major upgrades to the Parallel Search & Extract APIs.

Better quality, broader index coverage, and new features, backed by refreshed challenge benchmarks:

- Basic and Advanced modes for foreground vs. background agents

- Specialized retrieval for coding, company, and finance search

- Global coverage across 30+ countries