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Morning Edition · Monday, June 22, 2026
Exa Ships an Agent API for Web Research, Undercutting Frontier Models on Cost
A single endpoint that decomposes research tasks across subagents and mixes cheap and frontier models is the latest attempt to commoditize agentic search.
Exa opened access to an Agent application programming interface (API) for web research, list-building, and entity enrichment. The system splits a query into subtasks and assigns subagents to research multiple domains at once, then combines…
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