Creating the future of search and competing vs Google with Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas | E1770
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Today’s show:
Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas joins Jason to discuss competing with the major players in the generative search / AI chatbot market (1:25), designing an AI-powered search engine (4:49), and much more. *
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Time stamps:
(00:00) Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas joins Jason
(1:25) Competing in the generative search / AI chatbot market
(4:49) How Perplexity's AI model formulates answers
(11:18) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at https://crowdbotics.com/twist
(12:46) How Perplexity is citing sources
(20:20) Incorporating advertising into AI chatbots
(25:32) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(26:40) How Perplexity recruits talent and Aravind's time at OpenAI
(32:04) The future of AI technology and overcoming overlap
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(39:53) Meta's LLaMa model being leaked
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| 0:00.0 | your interviews with Brian Chesky. I learned a lot from those episodes actually. |
| 0:04.8 | Me too. Also, I liked his idea that they were going to only ship the number of features |
| 0:10.5 | he could keep in his brain and that his brain would be the maximum size of the canvas. |
| 0:17.3 | So if one person can't keep all these changes in their brain, let's put those changes |
| 0:21.6 | into the next six months cycle. I thought that was pretty awesome as well. |
| 0:25.8 | The heuristic from there adapted it for our company, which is if the person building |
| 0:30.4 | the feature doesn't know how to write the code for it, they're very good programmers, |
| 0:35.3 | but if they're finding it a hard time to break it down and actually implement it, then |
| 0:39.0 | it's not worth shipping. |
| 0:40.6 | This week in startups is brought to you by CrowdBodics. Great ideas can change the world. |
| 0:46.6 | And CrowdBodics is the fastest way to turn those ideas into code. Get a free scoping session |
| 0:51.9 | for your next big app idea at CrowdBodics.com slash twist, Vanta. Compliance and security |
| 0:58.7 | shouldn't be a deal breaker for startups to win new business. Vanta makes it easy for |
| 1:03.1 | companies to get a sock to report fast. Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited |
| 1:08.7 | time. |
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| 1:24.0 | slash twist. |
| 1:25.0 | All right, everybody. Welcome back to the program. We have been having an amazing array of founders |
| 1:32.6 | who are taking on the challenges of implementing AI in the real world. And today will be no |
| 1:38.2 | different. We have our unvind Shrin Yivas on the program. He's the founder and CEO of Proplexity |
| 1:45.9 | AI. Welcome to the program. Arvind, do you have a nickname or you go by Arvind? Arvind |
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