#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
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/aravind-srinivas-transcript
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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