Grass founder on the Delphi Podcast: training data is now a profitable business serving top labs
grass · x · 2026-10-22
On the Delphi Podcast, Grass founder Andrej Radonjic explains how AI inverted search economics: the index used to be the moat and crawling was free, but AI now makes indexing cheap while AI crawlers have pushed the web into blocking everything — so getting the page at all is the hard part. Grass presents itself to websites as normal users, backed by millions of opted-in residential nodes that have delivered exabytes of web data to frontier labs and multiple Mag 7 companies. Crawling at this scale doubles as mapping the entire internet, positioning Grass to build search on top: its Contents API is live, with Search and multimodal grounding next.
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