{"id":402226,"date":"2025-08-17T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/fired-by-elon-musk-ex-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawals-ai-venture-launches-deep-research-api-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:46:58","slug":"fired-by-elon-musk-ex-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawals-ai-venture-launches-deep-research-api-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/fired-by-elon-musk-ex-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawals-ai-venture-launches-deep-research-api-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired by Elon Musk, ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal&#8217;s AI venture launches \u2018Deep Research API\u2019 &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-index-0\">\n<p>Former Chief Executive Officer of Twitter (now known as X), Parag Agrawal, in a social media post announced that he has launched a new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"artificial intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) venture named &#8216;Deep Research API&#8217; in efforts to take over ChatGPT in the world AI development race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-2\">\n<p>In the post, Agrawal said that the first goal of the venture is to &#8216;outperform&#8217; both humans and all leading models including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/technology\/tech-news\/we-totally-screwed-up-sam-altman-explains-what-went-wrong-with-gpt-5-launch-11755254405237.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"GPT-5\">GPT-5<\/a> from Open AI. He also called the target two of the hardest benchmarks to beat in the industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-3\">\n<p>&#8220;We launched our Deep Research API &#8211; it&#8217;s the first to outperform both humans and all leading models including GPT-5 on two of the hardest benchmarks,&#8221; said Agrawal in his post on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-4\">\n<h2>Parag Agrawal&#8217;s AI footsteps<\/h2>\n<p>The former Twitter boss also highlighted that his company is already powering millions of research tasks on a daily basis for ambitious startups and public enterprise companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-6\">\n<p>Parag Agrawal is the founder of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/ai-startup-founder-blasts-ex-managers-for-biased-reference-checks-many-treat-exits-like-betrayal-netizens-react-11754723569011.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"AI startup\">AI startup<\/a>, Parallel Web Systems Inc., which is based in Palo Alto, California, United States. He said that the company offers automation facilities which companies use to carry out traditionally-human workflows with &#8216;exceeding human-level accuracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-7\">\n<p>&#8220;We already power millions of research tasks every day, across ambitious startups and public enterprises,&#8221; said Agrawal in his post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-9\">\n<h2>Who is Parag Agrawal?<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/companies\/news\/how-parag-agrawal-and-a-handle-tracking-elon-musks-private-jet-first-led-tesla-chief-towards-twitter-takeover-11707643257272.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Parag Agrawal\">Parag Agrawal<\/a> is well-known in the industry for serving as the CEO of the social media giant, Twitter. Elon Musk fired Agrawal after taking over the company in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-10\">\n<p>Agrawal started out his career as a Researcher at Microsoft in 2006, and after a few months, he shifted to the same position at Yahoo. In 2009, he again returned to Microsoft Corp.; however, after a brief run with the company, he joined the US-based telecom giant, AT&#038;T.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-12\">\n<p>In October 2011, Agrawal finally joined <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/trends\/pm-modi-cracks-emmanuel-macron-up-on-his-twitter-fight-with-donald-trump-social-media-says-hesitation-left-the-chat-11750235860659.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Twitter\">Twitter <\/a>as a Distinguished Software Engineer and after serving for over six years, he became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the global giant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-13\">\n<p>After spending over four years as the company&#8217;s CTO, Parag Agrawal was promoted to the CEO role in November 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-14\">\n<p>According to his LinkedIn profile, Parag Agrawal was from the Atomic Energy Central School in India, and later finished his graduation from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay with a Bachelor&#8217;s in Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-15\">\n<p>Agrawal in 2005 finished his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the Stanford University in United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Executive Officer of Twitter (now known as X), Parag Agrawal, in a social media post announced that he has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) venture named &#8216;Deep Research API&#8217; in efforts to take over ChatGPT in the world AI development race.\u00a0 In the post, Agrawal said that the first goal of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13990,188,183,17378,34547,9411,185,186,39880,210,15501,187,184,1115,189,150,182,190],"class_list":["post-402226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence-startup","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-business-news","tag-business-news-today","tag-ceo-of-twitter","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-deep-research-api","tag-elon-musk","tag-gpt-5","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-nft-technology","tag-parag-agrawal","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402228,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402226\/revisions\/402228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}