Events / San Francisco

Agents are changing the web with Parag Agrawal (founder, Parallel)

Baseten's 'Heavyweights' fireside chat with Parag Agrawal, founder of Parallel and former Twitter CEO, on building a web-search API purpose-built for AI agents.

Thu, Aug 20, 6:00 PMNorthern Waterfront, San Francisco, CA

Why it matters

Agentic search is becoming its own cost center — a founder building search infra specifically for agents is a direct read on where that spend is headed and what 'efficient' means.

The tokenmaxxing angle

The event's own framing says agent-era search must be 'orders of magnitude more efficient and cheaper than Google' — a rare explicit cost target stated for agent-facing infra.

From the organizers

Hosted by Baseten, interview led by co-head of model training Charles O'Neill; 6pm drinks, 6:30pm discussion; 8 guests registered at fetch time; part of Baseten's Heavyweights series.