#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answers to questions on the Internet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(10:52) – How Perplexity works

(18:48) – How Google works

(41:16) – Larry Page and Sergey Brin

(55:50) – Jeff Bezos

(59:18) – Elon Musk

(1:01:36) – Jensen Huang

(1:04:53) – Mark Zuckerberg

(1:06:21) – Yann LeCun

(1:13:07) – Breakthroughs in AI

(1:29:05) – Curiosity

(1:35:22) – $1 trillion dollar question

(1:50:13) – Perplexity origin story

(2:05:25) – RAG

(2:27:43) – 1 million H100 GPUs

(2:30:15) – Advice for startups

(2:42:52) – Future of search

(3:00:29) – Future of AI