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releasePRIMARY2026-09-17
Exa launches a historical web index with 400 billion snapshots

Exa Snapshot lets users and agents search prior versions of webpages instead of filtering the current web by date. Exa says the index is already being used for prediction-model backtesting.

releasePRIMARY2026-06-16
Exa launches Agent API at less than half the cost of GPT-5.5 and Opus

Exa launched Agent, an API that combines its search stack, mixed-model orchestration, and agent harness for deep web research. Exa says it can handle Opus- and GPT-5.5-class browsing tasks at less than half the cost.

newsSECONDARY2026-04-28
Gemini adds Grounding with Exa for websites, docs, people, and company search

Gemini models can now use Grounding with Exa to search websites, technical docs, papers, people, and companies through Exa's index. That gives Gemini a new agent-style grounding path alongside Google's first-party search tooling.

newsSECONDARY2026-04-10
ClawShop launches OpenClaw resources with SecretRef and PinchBench

Kilo Code’s ClawShop recap bundled a 30-minute KiloClaw setup workshop, SecretRef credential handling, searchable ClawBytes guides, and PinchBench for agentic performance. The event, OpenClaw 2026.4.10, and PetClaw together added new security, memory, budgeting, and desktop layers around the OpenClaw stack.

releaseSECONDARY2026-03-28
Hermes Agent ships v0.5.0 with 400+ Portal models and Exa support

Hermes Agent v0.5.0 adds 400+ models via Nous Portal, Hugging Face access, Exa support, GPT-5.4 behavior tweaks, and a published changelog. The release broadens provider coverage and hardens the runtime without changing the terminal-first workflow.

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