Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk
From The a16z Show by Andreessen Horowitz
June 6, 2026 · 50 min · Episode 1119
About this episode
Sarah Wang interviews Exa CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for AI agents and the implications for the future of information discovery.
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.
People in this episode
Host: Sarah Wang
Guest: Will Bryk
Topics covered
- AI agents
- search infrastructure
- information discovery
- autonomous systems
- agent economy
Keywords
- AI
- search engines
- autonomous systems
- data access
- agent workflows
- technology problems
- information discovery
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Exa
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