The World's Fastest Search API

What this post added

Introduced Exa Fast, a new, streamlined search API with p50 latency below 425ms. This was achieved by building the entire search stack from scratch, including crawling, search models, and a proprietary vector database, enabling fine-grained control over latency optimization. The post highlights the importance of low-latency search for AI systems and agentic workflows, contrasting it with wrapper-based APIs.