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January 28, 2026
How We're Building the Next Generation of Search with Semantic Search Technology
Learn about the future of search in our AI research blog. We provide AI applications with the highest quality web data through our advanced neural network search engine.
TL;DR
- Exa is developing a next-generation search engine to handle complex queries and diverse response types.
- Traditional search engines like Google are limited by their keyword-based approach.
- Exa's system involves crawling documents, preprocessing them into neural embeddings, and serving queries via a custom vector database.
- The project is guided by the "Bitter Lesson," emphasizing the success of systems that leverage significant computational power.
- Exa utilizes specialized transformer models to create embeddings that capture deeper document information than keywords.
- A large cluster of 144 H200 GPUs, termed the "Exacluster," supports their belief in the Bitter Lesson.
- Exa offers configurable search solutions (Exa Search and Exa Websets) to meet diverse business needs and query complexities.
- The company's goal is to achieve perfect search, analogous to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for knowledge retrieval.