Exa launches Agent Ultra: swarm-of-agents deep research claiming SOTA on evals and vibes
garrytan · x · 2026-09-26
Exa introduced Agent Ultra, pitched as a step change in deep research. It orchestrates swarms of agents with heavy parallelization, code execution, and database tools, all coordinated by frontier models, to perform exhaustive research and answer questions requiring thousands of sources. The team says it iterated until the system was clearly SOTA in both evals and subjective quality — likening it to "Codex/Claude ultra mode, but for web research."
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