Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's new startup is building 'Parallel web'

Technology Aug 18, 2025

Parag Agrawal, who led Twitter until Elon Musk's 2022 takeover, is back with a new project—Parallel Web Systems.
This startup wants to build a "web for machines," helping AI systems pull and organize online info way more efficiently.

Agrawal's Parallel outperforms GPT-5 in web tasks

Parallel's APIs are already outscoring OpenAI's GPT-5 in complex web tasks (58% accuracy vs. GPT-5's 41%), showing real promise for smarter internet bots.
With $30 million in backing from names like Khosla Ventures and engineers who previously worked at Google and Stripe, Agrawal's team is aiming to change how AI interacts with the web.