Here's my conversation with Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas), CEO of Perplexity. We talk about the history & future of AI, web search, and the Internet. Plus, lots of great advice on how to start and run a company. I met Aravind many years ago at Berkeley, and it was a bit surreal to sit down now and talk about the amazing progress in AI that happened since then. This was a fun and fascinating conversation.
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
Timestamps:
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
I’m in Washington D.C. and had a meeting canceled. Will be at the Dirksen Senate Office building snack bar for the next hour or so, if anyone wants to come chat about crypto and how we get crypto legislation + regulatory clarity this year.
@punk6529 This is why we’re working on mobile gaming with non-custodial wallet login! More dependencies on that infrastructure will prevent bans while giving users greater ownership of their data