The latest AI news and updates of Exa — AI search company building a web search engine and APIs optimized for AI agents. Covering Exa's latest product updates, launches, and company news from the past 90 days.
ExaOct 23Exa now powers the finance agent inside Revolut, which monitors securities and explains price movements to over 1 million users daily. Revolut selected Exa after benchmarking search providers on multi-hop retrieval, semantic context, and recency. The integration delivers news and analysis via push notifications, resulting in 2X the number of opened messages for the platform.
ExaOct 19Exa released Exa 3.0, featuring a larger embedding model, generally available Dynamic Highlights, and an expanded index of over 1.27 billion ecommerce listings and 211 million businesses. The update includes a new Exa Lite search type priced at $4 per 1,000 requests. Exa reports leading performance across eight search benchmarks, with all features available today via the API.
ExaOct 8Exa previewed ATLAS, a benchmark designed to grade agentic web search accuracy and completeness. ATLAS uses 547 synthetically generated tasks based on real-world search trends to address saturation and memorization in existing benchmarks. The results indicate that even top search agents miss about one-third of verified information, providing a more faithful signal for evaluating search quality and effort.
ExaOct 6Exa added 211 million restaurants, museums, and parks to its search index, providing AI agents with structured data including opening hours, reviews, and phone numbers. The update is live across all Exa endpoints at no additional cost. In internal benchmarks, Exa achieved an F1 score of 0.800, outperforming Perplexity Search and Parallel Advanced in local business data accuracy.
ExaSep 25Exa launched Agent Ultra, the highest effort tier for its research agent. It orchestrates swarms of agents to perform exhaustive research across thousands of sources. Exa reports that Agent Ultra achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and is significantly cheaper per task than other providers. The capability is available today via the Exa API.
ExaSep 17Exa launched Exa Snapshot, an index of 400 billion historical webpage snapshots spanning two decades. The capability allows search queries to return results as they existed at a specific past date. Researchers can use the snapshotAsOf parameter in Exa API endpoints to backtest prediction models, conduct reinforcement learning, and explore the pre-AI web.
ExaSep 7Exa Agent now supports live Polymarket data, providing read-only access to prediction market odds, price history, order books, and trader positions. Integration works by setting the provider to polymarket in the Agent API. This unlocks real-time market-implied probabilities and on-chain activity for specific events without additional tool-call costs.
ExaAug 30Exa released a research preview of Dynamic Highlights, a search primitive that jointly scans a set of pages to filter redundant information. By processing content together rather than independently, the model reduces token usage by 95% on average. This feature is available today via the Exa API by setting the dynamic flag to true.
ExaAug 22Exa launched a search plugin for OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT, providing access to over 100 billion websites, documents, research papers, people, and companies. The plugin is available for installation through the Codex plugins menu. This integration adds real-time web search capabilities to these platforms, allowing for data retrieval across the specified sources.
ExaAug 22Exa is partnering with Firefox to power AI search across Smart Window on desktop and Quick Answers on iOS. The integration provides source-backed answers with visible citations and a zero-data-retention commitment. This partnership delivers an independent AI search experience that prioritizes user choice and transparency within the browser.
ExaAug 8Exa launched a Slack integration that brings its AI search engine into team channels. Tagging @Exa in threads triggers cited web research, list-building, and enrichment requests. The app supports threaded follow-ups, custom commands like !max for exhaustive lists, and Exa Connect data providers. Installations occur via the Exa dashboard, with usage billed to the team’s existing account.
ExaAug 5Exa now supports the Machine Payments Protocol, allowing AI agents to pay for Search and Contents API requests using USDC.e on Tempo. Agents no longer require API keys or accounts, instead settling fees per request via a 402 payment challenge. Exa sponsors network gas fees, with search pricing starting at $0.007 per request.
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