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Bright Data, the Israeli web scraping company that defeated both Meta and Elon Musk’s X in federal court, unveiled a comprehensive AI infrastructure suite Wednesday designed to give artificial intelligence systems unfettered access to real-time web data — a capability the company argues Big Tech platforms are trying to monopolize.

The announcement of Deep Lookup, Browser.ai, and enhanced data collection protocols represents a dramatic expansion for the decade-old company, which has transformed from a specialized web scraping service into what CEO Or Lenchner calls “a unique infrastructure layer for AI companies.” The move comes as artificial intelligence companies increasingly struggle to access current web information needed to power chatbots, autonomous agents, and other AI applications.

“The intelligence of today’s LLMs is no longer its limiting factor; access is,” Lenchner said in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “We’ve spent the last decade fighting for open access to public web data, and these new offerings bring us to the next chapter in our journey, one characterized by truly accessible data and the subsequent rise of contextually-aware agents.”

The launch follows Bright Data’s high-profile legal victories in 2024, when federal judges dismissed lawsuits from both