Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434

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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TRANSCRIPT:
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Aravind’s X: https://x.com/AravSrinivas
Perplexity: https://perplexity.ai/
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:53 – How Perplexity works
9:50 – How Google works
32:17 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin
46:52 – Jeff Bezos
50:20 – Elon Musk
52:38 – Jensen Huang
55:55 – Mark Zuckerberg
57:23 – Yann LeCun
1:04:09 – Breakthroughs in AI
1:20:07 – Curiosity
1:26:24 – $1 trillion dollar question
1:41:14 – Perplexity origin story
1:56:27 – RAG
2:18:45 – 1 million H100 GPUs
2:21:17 – Advice for startups
2:33:54 – Future of search
2:51:31 – Future of AI

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