How Perplexity Works — with Denis Yarats 🤖
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Today's guest is Denis Yarats.
Denis is co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, one of my favorite products and one of the most successful AI startups today. Perplexity was founded less than two years ago and has just raised $250M in venture capital, at a $2B+ evaluation.
With Denis, we talked about the state of AI products and his vision of where they're going. Then we talked about Perplexity as a company, how the team is organized, how engineers work, and how they use AI themselves.
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I am sorry for the bad audio quality on my side 🙏 the recording picked up the wrong mic and we realized it only during editing 🙏
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Here is what we talked about:
(02:04 ) Introduction
(03:08 ) The History of Perplexity
(09:35 ) Startup and AI costs
(12:14 ) The proper AI model
(14:47 ) Open vs Proprietary Source
(15:51 ) Is AI evolution saturated?
(17:07 ) How Perplexity uses AI
(18:49 ) Perplexity Engineering team
(21:48 ) Trials, teams and management
(28:17 ) Startup planning
(31:53 ) Team structure
(33:33 ) Developing procedures
(37:35 ) Perplexity's "secret sauce"
(40:31 ) Metrics in Perplexity
(44:38 ) Perplexity's future
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