#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 191 minutes
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Aravind's X: https://x.com/AravSrinivas
Perplexity: https://perplexity.ai/
Perplexity's X: https://x.com/perplexity_ai
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OUTLINE:
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(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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Arvind Srenewas, CEO of Proplexity, a company that |
| 0:06.8 | aims to revolutionize how we humans get answers to questions on the internet. |
| 0:12.9 | It combines search and large language models, |
| 0:16.0 | LLMs, in a way that produces answers |
| 0:18.7 | where every part of the answer has a citation |
| 0:21.7 | to human-created sources on the web. This significantly |
| 0:26.1 | reduces L. L. L. M. hallucinations and makes it much easier and more |
| 0:30.4 | reliable to use for research and general curiosity-driven late-night rabbit hole explorations that I often engage in. |
| 0:40.1 | I highly recommend you try it out. |
| 0:48.0 | Our event was previously a PhD student at Berkeley where we long ago first met and an AI researcher at Deep Mind, Google, and finally, Open AI as a research scientist. |
| 0:56.5 | This conversation has a lot of fascinating technical details on state of the art |
| 1:01.5 | in machine learning and general innovation in retrieval, augmented generation, |
| 1:06.8 | aka rag, chain of thought reasoning, indexing the web, U.SX design, and much more. |
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