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Big Technology Podcast

AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7595 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dimitri Shevelenko is the chief business officer of Perplexity. Shevelenko joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the AI industry’s shift toward agentic 'super apps' and computer-using assistants will become a real business. Tune in to hear why Perplexity believes computer use is a durable productivity tool, how it thinks about consumer AI’s growth slowdown, and why multi-model orchestration could be a competitive advantage. We also cover AI search, enterprise adoption, trust and permissions, Chinese open-source models, pricing, and the economics of AI demand. Hit play for a sharp conversation on where AI products are heading next. Join Big Technology's AI Summit In San Francisco: https://summit.bigtechnology.com/ ——— Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is the near uniform move of AI companies to agent super apps going to pay off?

0:05.2

Let's ask Perplexities chief business officer right after this.

0:08.8

This week, I'm live at Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow's annual conference in Las Vegas, where

0:14.4

enterprise AI moves from promise to production.

0:17.0

I'm sitting down with ServiceNow's president and CPO Amit Savary on the platform strategy powering it all.

0:22.4

They're people and technology leaders on what AI means for the workforce, the engineering team behind Service Now's Nvidia partnership,

0:28.9

on what it really takes to ship AI at scale and Ultra Beauty on deploying AI across 1,300 stores.

0:34.5

These are the conversations you won't hear anywhere else, and new episodes are dropping this week on my YouTube page.

0:40.9

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0:47.3

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0:52.0

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0:55.2

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1:00.3

in the age of AI. Working with big and small clients, A board always delivers in weeks, not months.

1:06.6

Your AI revolution is just beginning. Visit Aboard.com to get your AI rollout right.

1:12.3

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

1:18.3

We have the chief business officer of Perplexity here with us.

1:22.1

Dmitri Chevolenko is here with us in studio.

1:24.7

And Perplexity, as you may know, is one of the many companies moving towards this agentic, super app style product with Perplexity Computer. Now, they are joining OpenAI with Codex, Ananthropic with ClaudeCode, as one of the many companies moving towards this agent that can control your computer and get stuff done for you. And today we'll talk about where that's going and whether it's going to be a real business. Dmitri, great to see you. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Looking forward to the conversation. So we're here in mid-20206, and I got to be honest. I thought at this point you would be a subsidiary of Apple. Hasn't happened yet. Well, sorry, your polymarket bet there, you know, didn't pan out.

2:02.0

Just to be clear, there was no polymarket, bet.

2:04.4

I just thought it was a good idea, but it hasn't happened.

2:07.9

You know, we have a great blossoming partnership with Apple.

2:11.9

They actually are really excited about what we're doing with personal computer and how it uses Mac minis.

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