#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
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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:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(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
10:42
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