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The Times Tech Podcast

Perplexity CEO on Chrome, AI and challenging the tech giants

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Technology, Interviews, News, Silicon Valley, Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Tech, Business News, Business Analysis

4.8676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas explains his bold $35 billon bid for Google Chrome and why he thinks the startup can take on tech giants. Was it a PR stunt or a serious move? Danny puts that to him directly, and they talk about how Perplexity hopes to reshape the internet. Plus, Danny and Katie unpack the complicated geo-politics of semiconductors.

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0:00.0

We're not doing a welcome to the Times Tech podcast.

0:07.8

Oh yeah, that's a good point. We haven't got a welcome in there.

0:09.4

Let's go. We can wing it because we're pros.

0:12.8

I'm like, what does it normally say?

0:17.2

Welcome to the Times Tech podcast. I am Danny Fortin. Danny in the Valley.

0:23.6

And I am Katie Prescott, Katie in the city of London. Hello, Danny. How are you?

0:29.3

I'm living the dream. How are you?

0:31.2

The dream? San Francisco in August.

0:33.4

Yeah. It actually, I will say it's been a super strange summer. But all of a sudden, like this week, it's like we have literally a week before the kids go back to school. And all of a sudden it's like summer beautiful weather, blue skies, maybe go to the pool later. Oh, dreamy. I heard one of your sons running earlier with a picture and you did a game job of saying,

0:55.2

That's lovely darling.

0:55.8

Well, you know, it's interesting.

0:57.0

This is a tech podcast.

0:58.3

First of all, I don't say darling to my kids because I'm way too American for that.

1:03.5

But interestingly, they both came in showing pictures because my son, my elder son,

1:09.0

he's really, really into drawing.

1:12.7

And so he watches YouTube videos, drawing videos. Oh, my daughters do that. Yeah. Yeah. And then this morning, the kids are

1:19.6

home. I'm working. My wife's working. It's all a bit mad around the house. And I go down to make

1:24.5

coffee and my elder son is basically doing a drawing video for my younger son.

1:30.3

Oh, that's so cute.

1:31.1

Now we're going to make the mouth and now you do the arms and blah, blah, blah.

1:35.0

So they both came up to show like basically what they drew,

1:39.4

but it was my six-year-old drawing what my eight-year-old told them to draw.

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