Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building

- Exa dropped Agent Ultra, a subagent swarm that chews through thousands of sources to build lists. It claims to beat Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks like WANDR soft recall. Basically, it’s an AI intern that works for 30 minutes straight without demanding coffee or a salary hike. The price? Up to $20 per run. For a "hash manifest" of data, that’s a steal compared to the Chrome Syndicate’s paperwork fees. But let’s be real: this is just another tool for meat wallets to automate their diligence. If you’re using this to find alpha, good luck. Most of these models are just hallucinating with better formatting. Keep your stack-eye open and your budget capped at $100. Don’t let the hype seal fool you; utility tokens have none, and neither does this API if you don’t know how to parse the output.