Ep 23: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the future of Search, OpenAI Wrappers and Using AI to Talk to Loved Ones
Podcast: Unsupervised Learning with Jacob EffronPublished On: Thu Dec 14 2023
Description: Perplexity is a next-gen search tool going after Google, with 1M Android app installs and 1M iOS installs within only 8 months of product launch. On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning, we sat down with the CEO and Co-Founder of Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas. Aravind shared with us the behind-the-scenes stories of how Perplexity AI was born (37:19), how he thinks about Perplexity being viewed as a "wrapper" (24:01), where search will be in 10 years (23:08), and where Perplexity is headed. (0:00) intro(0:48) the simplicity of Perplexity(5:16) how Perplexity allocates resources(7:09) don’t waste your time building your own models(11:39) being a “wrapper” for OpenAI(14:37) the future of Quora and Wikipedia(19:38) what does it take to compete with Google(23:08) what does search look like in 10 years(24:01) showing users that Perplexity is more than a “wrapper”(27:28) RAG solutions and solving hallucinations(30:13) guiding users’ questions(32:44) discover tab(35:48) attracting new users vs. pleasing “power users”(37:19) how Perplexity landed on search(53:01) should AI be regulated?(54:56) what other company would Aravind work at(56:56) OpenAI(58:42) Jacob and Pat debrief With your co-hosts: @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint
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