ventsi

gtm & strategic partnerships @exaailabs - agentic search and why AI needs better data

[ventsi @ventsi]

that was great!

[Daksh Gupta @dakshgup]

the war on bugs

[ventsi @ventsi]

even Haiku is unavailable when you hit the limit

[ventsi @ventsi]

1 fable session, 0 useful work accomplished on $200/month max plan

[ventsi @ventsi]

that was fun while it lasted, still at 0 useful output

[ventsi @ventsi]

i've been there so many times 🥲

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Vibe coders everyday struggle in 15 seconds.

[ventsi @ventsi]

Super excited about this!

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Introducing Exa Connect: connecting agents to data beyond the public web.

Available today with ZoomInfo, Crunchbase, Similarweb, and many other leading data providers.

https://t.co/MlEhWoCIiF

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Introducing Exa Connect: connecting agents to data beyond the public web.

Available today with ZoomInfo, Crunchbase, Similarweb, and many other leading data providers.

https://t.co/MlEhWoCIiF

[ventsi @ventsi]

asked ChatGPT about the Saudi squad on screen. got the 2022 roster

that’s why @ExaAILabs exists

[ventsi @ventsi]

@ExaAILabs ❤️ Agents

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

The @Tempo mainnet launched 93 days ago. Quick summary of the current state:

• Run rate payment volume is around $3 billion. There's a long way to go, but it's cool to see real usage already emerging. (It took Stripe a lot longer than 93 days to get to $3 billion.)

• As a blockchain, we obviously don't know about all the different use-cases. (Please tell us if you're doing something cool with Tempo!) Larger companies using Tempo include @Deel, which is using Tempo to pay out to their vast network of contractors, and @Meta, which is using it via @Link for global payouts. There are a bunch of other large companies working on Tempo integrations that'll be announced soon.

• Internally, developing on Tempo has been fun, and Tempo is now Stripe's default blockchain for new features.

• On the AI side of things, there appear to be around 1,000 active services selling to agents via the Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp). There's a useful directory of available services at https://t.co/fAZ5iA5nZc. 570 unique agents, for example, seem to have purchased from @ExaAILabs, and 332 from @openweather. I don't know how long it'll take for this use-case to become big, but it seems all-but inevitable that it will within a few years.

• Today, @Stripe, @Visa, and @StanChart are running Tempo validators. Validation will become more decentralized over time.

• The Tempo team is building a lot of new protocol functionality. For example, privacy zones, receive policies, and virtual addresses. (Details for all on the Tempo blog: https://t.co/jE7ltNIaj2.) In general, our belief is that there's a lot of functionality to be built at the blockchain level to make higher-level applications easy and performant.

The original thesis behind Tempo was that both AI and stablecoins would stretch blockchains in new ways, with need for privacy, fees denominated/payable in stablecoins, batch transactions, microtransactions, faster confirmations, and so forth. Overall, this still seems like the right set of bets, and the agentic stuff is happening somewhat faster than I was expecting. "1M stablecoin TPS, with the vast majority from agents" still seems like the right north star.

[ventsi @ventsi]

Exa agent in Google Sheets works great. I'm using this to enrich leads from Databricks AI Summit this week.

Two examples for finding linkedin profiles and size of companies:

=exa("return the linkedin profile link of",B2:F2)

=exa("size of company by employee range. return only the range, no commentary", E2)

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Exa Agent is now available in Google Sheets!

Generate huge lists, enrich data, and much more.

Installation instructions below 👇

[ventsi @ventsi]

https://t.co/Zl7HrzO1Ch

[Jakub Hojsan @JakubHojsan]

Work at Exa, get Molly Tea often.

[ventsi @ventsi]

11x has great looking digital workers powered by Exa!

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

11x builds high-performing AI SDRs on top of Exa:

"Exa helps us both find leads that are exhibiting these signals and do deep research enrichment on these leads". - Prabhav Jain, CEO @11x_official

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

Today we're launching Exa Agent: Opus/GPT 5.5 quality web research at 2-10x lower cost.

It's our most powerful endpoint, particularly good at deep research and list-building - as cheaply as possible.

Basically you can now use a deep research API for close to the cost of a search API.

As the world wrestles with the cost of big models, we'll keep pushing the price/performance frontier 🫡

[ventsi @ventsi]

Search with Exa Agent is my favorite type of search - it's fast, extensive and great for building lists.

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Introducing Exa Agent: frontier web research at less than half the cost of GPT 5.5 and Opus.

/agent orchestrates a mixture of cost-effective models to complete any web research task, from simple data enrichments to building gigantic lists.

[ventsi @ventsi]

raise $250 million round, get pitched on F1 sponsorships. didn't know that was part of the deal.

[ventsi @ventsi]

NY colleagues today ...

[ventsi @ventsi]

Disclaimer from Claude on posting this: I'm recognizing that the user has shared an ID photo and is asking me to help craft a post to find this person, but I'm concerned about the privacy and safety implications of publicly sharing someone's identifying information without their consent. Let me reconsider this more carefully. The user's intent is genuinely good...10k tokens...
On the safety side, I'm comfortable with this. Helping write a found-wallet post with a name isn't facilitating harm—it's returning property. There's no targeting, harassment, or surveillance involved, and I'm not reproducing or extracting data from the ID beyond what they've already provided.

[ventsi @ventsi]

Found a wallet at the Marina this morning. Arizona ID inside, belongs to Michael Murphy. It's safe at the Starbucks on 2132 Chestnut St. Michael, if you see this, go grab it.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ