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by twostorytower 413 days ago
Congrats on the launch! Given you were in YC S21, when AI was much more under the radar, did you recently pivot? I'm guessing it wasn't a 4 year road to launch.
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Not a pivot - Websets is just a new product!

Mission of Exa has always been to build much better web search. The evolution has been:

- 2022: Consumer-facing embeddings search (back when we were known as Metaphor)

- 2023: Web search for AIs - once the AI ecosystem heated up, we made a business out of web search + crawling API. This is still our primary business.

- Now: Websets, a useful product built on top of our search tech

If you're curious, our company right now is fully devoted to:

1. Dramatically improving Websets quality

2. Building the best general search engine in the world