#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

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