Metaphor vs Glean — Comparison

Metaphor

The Exa Web search API retrieves the best, realtime data from the web for your AI

Dear curious internet wanderer, We don't have ads. We sell our search as an API, optimized exclusively for quality, latency, and customizability. That's why customers like Cursor, Lovable, and thousands of others use us to power agents and workflows. But that's just today. Exa's ultimate goal is perfect search. What is perfect search? It's simple – you should be able to know anything about the world. Literally anything, like: Perfect search is highly controllable, unbiased, comprehensive. Because we lack it, we each walk around with an incomplete understanding of nearly everything. Building perfect search will be extremely hard. But it's also necessary. It's critical civilizational infrastructure for our new AI reality. Politics is fragmenting, wars are raging, and technology is accelerating -- we need tools that deeply inform us what's going on. If we don't gain control over the planet's information, we will lose control over our planet. In short, the world needs perfect search. It needs an organization with pure incentives to build it. And because no one else is doing it, that's why we have to. Building a search engine from scratch requires building massive-scale infrastructure. There are 100s of billions of webpages (roughly an exabyte!) that need storing, processing, indexing, and serving at high throughput. Building this is fun but quite difficult. That's why search tools, like ChatGPT, rely on 3rd party search engines under the hood. We're lucky to now own hundreds of H200s worth of research compute... also known as our exa-cluster :) We've been assembling some of the smartest engineers, researchers, and operators in the world to build the best search engine in history. We've raised over $100M from top investors including Benchmark, Lightspeed, Nvidia, and YC, and are advised by top researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Bing. Will was one of the first engineers at Cresta where he built real time AI products. He studied CS and physics at Harvard, where he researched human/AI interaction and led the robotics club. Will considers himself an expert in both embedding models and chocolate chip cookies -- the jury is still out on which is more critical for company operations. Jeff spent three years building data and web infra at Plaid. He studied CS and Philosophy at Harvard, where he ran a GPU cluster in his dorm room and was roommates with Will. The team estimates that 20% of social analysis in San Francisco traces back to one of Jeff's many viral tweets. Ben previously did quant trading at SIG and before that took the hardest math course in the country at Harvard. When we find frisbees, tailor made suits, or scribbled math formulas lying around the office, there's usually a Ben behind it. Hubert previously worked on projects like particle simulations and automated wheelchairs. He studied CS in the Yao Class at Tsinghua University. Hubert's a

Glean

Glean is the Work AI platform connected to your enterprise's data. Find, create, and automate anything. Explore what Work AI can do for you!

From AI tools to AI-powered systems See how teams are deploying agents and building AI-native workflows to run real work. Arvind Jain is the Founder and CEO of Glean, the AI-powered work assistant that brings people the answers they need to be more productive and happier at work. Prior to Glean, Arvind co-founded and led R D at Rubrik, a publicly traded leader in the data security space. Arvind also spent over a decade at Google as a distinguished engineer, where he led teams in Google’s Search, Maps, and YouTube products. Prior, Arvind held a leadership position at Akamai and started his career at Microsoft. He earned his BTech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Summarize recent customer meetings including who attended and the topics that were discussed. T.R. Vishwanath is a Co-founder and Technical Infrastructure Lead at Glean, and he oversees the development and maintenance of integrations with various data sources. He enjoys designing reliable and fast solutions to meaningful user problems. Before joining Glean, Vish held technical leadership roles at Facebook for close to a decade, contributing to various areas of the product such as the Facebook developer platform, News Feed, and Ads. Prior to Facebook, they worked on developer tools and runtimes at Microsoft. Vish holds a B. Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, India, and a Masters from the University of Texas at Austin. Research a new project and identify insights, resources, and subject matter experts. Tony Gentilcore is a Co-founder and Product Engineering lead at Glean. For more than 20 years, he has loved to build products with fast and smooth user interfaces for devices of every size. During a decade at Google, he helped modernize the web search results page from the static “ten blue links” days into the JavaScript era. Later he founded and led the Chrome Speed Team where he and his team contributed to the HTML5 specification, helped form the W3C Web Performance Working Group and ensured Chrome established itself as the fastest browser. Tony received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Saint Louis University. Away from the LCD glow he’s on a quest to photograph every bird species in the world. Summarize a feature's status, detailing progress, current tasks, upcoming goals, blockers, and team feedback. Alla Mezhvinsky is the VP of People at Glean. She has over 15 years of experience in talent operations, management, and recruiting. Most recently, Alla served as the Head of Talent Acquisition at Instacart from 2019, where she played a key role in scaling the company from over 500 to 3,000 employees, leading significant builds like the Ads Sales team from inception to over 300, and guiding the team through the IPO in 2023. Additionally, her experience includes roles at Square, Zynga, and ClassPass. Passionate about strategic hiring, Alla is dedicated to helping ind

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