Exa 3.0 launches with Dynamic Highlights for its Search API

Artificial Analysis says Exa released Exa 3.0 with Dynamic Highlights, which determines how much text to return from each search result within a shared budget. In its benchmarks, Exa's auto mode scored 80 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index, tying Perplexity Search (medium); lite scored 79. With Dynamic Highlights, auto used 7.6 searches per task, down from 9.4 with standard highlights, while tokens per task fell 47% and cost per task fell 21%.