#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
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<p>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:<br />
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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
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(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(10:52) – How Perplexity works<br />
(18:48) – How Google works<br />
(41:16) – Larry Page and Sergey Brin<br />
(55:50) – Jeff Bezos<br />
(59:18) – Elon Musk<br />
(1:01:36) – Jensen Huang<br />
(1:04:53) – Mark Zuckerberg<br />
(1:06:21) – Yann LeCun<br />
(1:13:07) – Breakthroughs in AI<br />
(1:29:05) – Curiosity<br />
(1:35:22) – $1 trillion dollar question<br />
(1:50:13) – Perplexity origin story<br />
(2:05:25) – RAG<br />
(2:27:43) – 1 million H100 GPUs<br />
(2:30:15) – Advice for startups<br />
(2:42:52) – Future of search<br />
(3:00:29) – Future of AI</p>