Exa AI Research Blog
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Exa Instant is a newly introduced web search engine that claims to be the fastest in the world, with search response times under 200 milliseconds, making it particularly useful for real-time AI applications like chat and voice assistants. This speed advantage is crucial for AI agents, which require rapid search capabilities to avoid workflow bottlenecks. Exa Instant's performance was benchmarked against other providers, showing it to be up to 15 times faster than competitors from a datacenter in Northern California. The search engine maintains high quality through options like Exa Fast, Exa Auto, and Exa Deep for those requiring even more compute power. Exa Instant is designed to accommodate the growing needs of AI-driven search tasks, marking a significant shift in the search industry as AI usage increases. The company is also actively hiring to further enhance its search capabilities.