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Mentions personal use of Exa.

29 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

“So Brave is the one that ships with OpenClaw. I use Exa just because I already have an Exa account. You use Perplexity.”

— Claire Vo

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Claire Vo
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29 Mar 2026
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Lenny's Podcast

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…You mentioned at one point Exa. Talk about just where that plugs in, which is basically like a headless browser thing. Yeah. So part of what your OpenClaw can do is access the web. It can do that through a browser, so it can open up Chrome and search and all that stuff. But as we said, the web is a little hostile. Or there are these web search APIs that are now available. Brave is, I think, the one that ships out of the box with OpenClaw. And think of them as programmatic Googles, which is instead of going to a website and searching in a search bar, it sends an API request and returns search results and websites for you. So Brave is the one that ships with OpenClaw. I use Exa just because I already have an Exa account. You use Perplexity. Again, it's just a way to give your OpenClaw access to the web when it doesn't have fingers and can't use a browser very well. One of the other limitations I've run into is it's not just that I couldn't use the browser, it's that it disconnects from Chrome a lot and it's just like, okay, I can't do anything. I know they've been shipping a lot of updates there, so I think that's actually getting better. And I think that's just like, if things aren't working now, they're just only going to get better because now-…

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