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Bryk: Neural link prediction is strictly more powerful than Google's PageRank
“The link prediction objective can be seen as like a neural page rank, because what you're doing is you're predicting the links people share. And so if everyone is sharing some Paul Graham essay about fundraising, then like our model is more likely to predict i…”
Will Bryk Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 22:51 Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
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Bryk: Google and Bing rely on limited keyword algorithms due to constraints
“Google and Bing work, and they're just not using new methods. There are all sorts of reasons for that. Like, one, like, Google has to be comprehensive over the web, so they're, and they have to return in 400 milliseconds. And those two things combined means th…”
Will Bryk Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 19:48 Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
Disclosure
Exa.ai uses LLMs as data labelers instead of humans
“We could get by, which we are right now doing, using, like, LLMs as the labelers.”
Will Bryk Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 48:45 Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
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