AI + a16z · 2026-06-04 · 50 min
Sarah Wang speaks with Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for the AI era. The conversation covers Exa’s origins, why traditional search engines were not designed for AI agents, and how search changes when the user is no longer a human but an autonomous system. They discuss retrieval, agent workflows, coding agents, data access, and why search may become a foundational layer for the emerging agent economy. Along the way, Bryk shares his views on AI-native products, the future of information discovery, and why some of the most important problems in technology can ultimately be framed as search problems. Resources: Find Will on X: Find Sarah on X: Check out everything a16z is doing with artificial intelligence here , including articles, projects, and more podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Building Self-Accelerating AI with Mirendil65 / 100Ideogram’s Open-Weights Image Model and the Future of AI DesignAI Agents and the Fight for Customer DataBen Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of SoftwareAI Infrastructure, Distribution, and the Next Wave of Software