Archive · 15 Aug 2025
Former Twitter CEO Launches AI Startup, Challenging GPT-5
Parag Agrawal, who used to run Twitter, has started a new company called Parallel that is building AI that can search the internet.
It's like giving AI a smart web browser.
Parallel can find information, check if it's correct, and then organize it.
The company claims its technology is faster and more accurate than some of the best AI systems, like GPT-5, especially when looking for information online.
Parallel has raised a lot of money and is working with other growing AI companies.
This technology could help AI coding assistants, retailers, and market analysts.
Agrawal believes this technology will allow multiple AI agents to work online for users in the future.
Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches "Parallel" with $30M to advance web-based AI.
Parallel's technology enables AI to retrieve, verify, and organize real-time web data.
The platform has eight "research engines" and claims to outperform GPT-5 on some benchmarks.
Agrawal's new venture offers APIs for applications like AI coding and market analysis.
The startup represents Agrawal's return to the tech scene after his ousting from Twitter.
- Who
- Parag Agrawal, former Twitter CEO.
- What
- Parag Agrawal launched Parallel Web Systems Inc., an AI startup.
- When
- Founded in 2023.
- Where
- Palo Alto.
- Why
- To give AI the ability to reliably locate and interpret information from the internet.
- Company Name
- Parallel Web Systems Inc.
- Founder
- Parag Agrawal
- Funding
- $30 million
- Location
- Palo Alto
- Core Function
- Agentic AI web research
- Key Investors
- Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Index Ventures