Loomcycle released v1.15.0-v1.15.1 of its search infrastructure, replacing the single-provider free tier with a multi-provider fallback circuit. The update introduces a Provider interface with five pu…
AI agents often diagnose problems far faster than they can fix them, wasting time on unnecessary investigation due to a structural mismatch between diagnostic capability and remediation authority. Thi…
Search SDK launches a unified TypeScript SDK for integrating web search into AI agents, supporting multiple providers like Firecrawl, Tavily, Exa, Brave, and Serper with a single API. The SDK provides…
AI search engine Exa raised $250 million in Series C funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, led by a16z, to power AI agents with high-quality web search. Exa already serves over 5,000 companies includin…
Steel.dev released Atlas, an open-source deep research agent that allows users to own their research data. Atlas decomposes questions, routes sub-tasks to various researchers like Exa and Perplexity, …
Antonio Mallia's Seltz raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build web search infrastructure for AI agents, led by Speedinvest and B Capital. The startup aims to provide machine-oriented search that…
Exa launched Exa Agent on June 16, transforming its AI-native search API into a research agent endpoint for developers. The product automates structured web research tasks like deep research and entit…
SearchRouter launches a unified API that lets developers switch between search providers like Exa, Cohere, and Brave with a single string change, offering automatic fallback, fan-out routing, and unif…
A developer tested 50 AI tools in May 2026 and kept only seven: Claude API, Cursor, Firecrawl, Exa, Replicate, Inngest, and Braintrust. The developer found that most tools fail at the 'last mile' of o…
OpenAI released Sites, a feature that lets Codex publish live, interactive websites with shareable URLs directly from a coding session. The company also launched six open-source, role-specific plugins…
AI for biology faces a fundamental challenge because drug discovery lacks the clean, typed interfaces that make machine learning powerful in software development. Unlike software APIs where outputs ar…
Cognition raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round that values the company at $26 billion, marking a 2.5x valuation increase from its September Series C. The AI agent lab now projects over $1 bil…
Exa raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation in a Series C round, Modal raised $355 million at a $4.7 billion valuation in a Series C round, and Turbopuffer reached $100 million in annual recur…
Exa has raised a Series C round led by a16z to build a search engine designed specifically for AI agents, which the company says will soon search the web more than humans. The startup has spent five y…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading Exa's Series C funding round to support the company's development of a search engine built specifically for artificial intelligence agents. Exa's technology aims …
The Y Combinator (YC) AI Stack is a new initiative offering students who attend YC events a package of free credits for AI development tools, valued at over $25,000. The package includes cloud credits…