Startup Bright Data Ltd. today introduced a suite of software tools designed to help companies collect information from the public web.
The first tool, Deep Lookup, lends itself to use cases such as helping salespeople find potential customers. The two other products in the suite are geared toward artificial intelligence developers. They make it easier to collect publicly available data for AI training projects.
“The intelligence of today’s LLMs is no longer its limiting factor; access is,” said Bright Data Chief Executive Officer Or Lenchner.
Founded in 2014, Bright Data provides a web scraping platform that is used by over 20,000 organizations. Those customers spend more than $100 million per year on the software. The company says that it has helped users scan more than 200 billion webpages to date.
The first component of Bright Data’s new product lineup, Deep Lookup, is an AI-powered search engine. It allows workers to retrieve information about companies and other entities using natural language instructions. For example, an investor could ask Deep Lookup to create a list of AI startups that were founded in the past three years.
The search engine organizes its output in a spreadsheet-like format. If necessary, users can enrich the data in the spreadsheet by entering additional instructions. Deep Lookup also provides citations that can be used to check the accuracy of the retrieved records.
Bright Data’s second new tool is called Browser.ai. It’s a cloud-based browser that AI applications can use to interact with websites. A product recommendation engine, for example, could use the service to retrieve merchandise details from popular e-commerce platforms.
Browser.ai is based on Chromium, the open-source browser engine that underpins Chrome. If an AI application’s attempt to access a webpage fails, the service can automatically retry the request. There are also features for detecting and troubleshooting technical issues in webpage retrieval workflows.
Rounding out Bright Data’s new product suite is Bright Data MCP. It’s an open-source tool that allows AI applications to access the company’s software via an application programming interface. The tool can be used by chatbots, AI code editors such as OpenAI’s Windsurf and other workloads.
Bright Data MCP is based on an open-source technology called Model Context Protocol. Released to open source by Anthropic PBC last year, it provides a standardized interface through which AI applications can interact with third-party systems. The software thereby removes the need for developers to build custom connectors.
Deep Lookup is currently in beta, while Browser.ai and Bright Data MCP are generally available.
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