Exa 3.0 Search API Tops Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on 8 Benchmarks
Exa has released Exa 3.0, an upgrade to its web search API for AI agents.
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Key points
- The Exa 3.0 search API ships a larger embedding model and a cheaper search type, Exa Lite.
- Performance: Exa 3.0 Auto ranks first on all 8 Exa-run benchmarks against Perplexity, Brave and Parallel.
- Exa 3.0 is a search API release from Exa Labs that upgrades retrieval quality across every search type.
- How does Exa 3.0 improve retrieval?
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- [1]Exa 3.0 Search API Tops Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on 8 BenchmarksMarkTechPost · Oct 20, 08:12 AM
Exa has released Exa 3.0, an upgrade to its web search API for AI agents.
The Exa 3.0 search API ships a larger embedding model and a cheaper search type, Exa Lite.
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