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🗓️ 5 March 2024

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On this episode of Okay, Computer. Dan Nathan and Deirdre Bosa discuss Perplexity vs. other chatbots (2:30), Elon Musk suing Open AI & Sam Altman (7:30), Apple & Google sitting out the AI rally (9:45), and enterprise chatbots taking jobs (22:45). After the break, Dan sits down with Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity CEO and Ann Bordetsky, Partner at NEA for the latest installment of our Funders x Founders series (27:30). They hit Aravind’s background (29:00), reinventing search (33:00), what Perplexity is and how it works (38:30), taking share from Google (41:30), revenue sources they are focused on (56:30) and a vibe check on Silicon Valley (57:15). Articles Mentioned on this Podcast: Google vs. Google: The Internal Struggle Holding Back its AI (CNBC’s TechCheck) Elon Musk Suing Open AI & Sam Altman Over Contract Breach (CNBC) Klarna froze hiring because of AI. Now it says its chatbot does the work of 700 full-time staff (Fortune) JPMorgan’s AI-Aided Cashflow Model Can Cut Manual Work by 90% (Bloomberg) — View our show notes here Learn more about Current: current.com Listen to 'Strategic Alternatives': https://www.rbccm.com/en/gib/ma-inflection-points Email us at [email protected] with any feedback, suggestions, or questions for us to answer on the pod and follow us @OkayComputerPod. We’re on social: Follow @dee_bosa on Twitter Follow @GuyAdami on Twitter Follow us on Instagram @RiskReversalMedia Subscribe to our YouTube page

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0:00.0	Welcome to a very special edition of OK Computer Podcast.
0:05.1	I'm Dan Nathan.
0:05.8	I'm joined by Deerbos.
0:07.2	She's the host of CNBC's Tech Check Debo.
0:09.3	Welcome back.
0:10.2	Hello.
0:10.8	Happy to be here, as always.
0:12.0	All right.
0:12.3	Very special pod because, two things.
0:14.8	About a week and a half ago or so, you did this great 15-minute everything AI tech check that you can find on CNBC's YouTube channel.
0:23.9	We're going to put it in the show notes.
0:25.1	And it was really covering everything from what's going on in the public markets and the fascination, obviously, with Nvidia, but how that's also broadening out and a lot of stuff that's going on in the private markets.
0:34.9	And also we thought today would be a great episode to hit a bunch of that
0:38.0	because after your and my conversation, I sit with Arvin Shrinivas.
0:43.2	He's the CEO and co-founder of Perplexity with Ann Bordetsky, who is a partner at NEA,
0:48.8	and she led their Series A round.
0:51.4	Obviously, since then, they've done a series B round in short order after that.
0:55.5	But what Arvind and his team are building over there is truly disruptive. Debo, I know you've
1:00.5	spoken to him in the past. And it's really interesting. I've used this expression a couple
1:04.8	times over the last couple months or so. The way people are talking about perplexity reminds me
1:09.7	about 20 years ago or a little more the way people were talking about perplexity reminds me about 20 years ago or a little more the way
1:12.2	people were talking about Google and how they are dealing with the incumbents on the net.
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