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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 Meta and X alleging the company illegally scraped their platforms. Those rulings established crucial legal precedent defining what constitutes “public data” on the internet — information that can be viewed without logging in and therefore can be legally collected and used.
The court cases revealed that both Meta and X had been Bright Data customers even while suing the company, highlighting the contradictory stance many tech giants have taken toward web scraping. The rulings have broader implications for the AI industry, which relies heavily on web data to train and operate language models.
“It was revealed in court that both of them were a Bright Data customer, because everyone needs data, everyone, especially those who are building models,” Lenchner explained. “We are the only company that has the financial resources, and I would even say the courage to do that.”
Judge William Alsup, who presided over the X case, wrote that giving social media companies “free rein to decide, on any basis, who can collect and use data” risks creating “information monopolies that would disserve the public interest.” The ruling established that data viewable without login credentials constitutes public information that can be legally scraped.
Bright Data has now filed a countersuit against X, alleging the platform violated antitru …