Perplexity’s CEO on Its Plan to Displace Google Search With AI Answers — With Aravind Srinivas

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine that answers queries with a few paragraphs in natural language. Srinivas joins the show to discuss how his company might threaten Google search, and whether conversational AI search is actually similar to traditional search at all. Tune into the second half where we discuss Aravind's perspective on how AI search might help or hurt news publishers. We also discuss Jeff Bezos's investment in Perplexity and where the cutting edge of AI is moving next. Tune in for a candid conversation with the CEO of the hottest AI startup in the world. ---- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	The CEO of the hottest AI startup in the world joins us to talk about talent, tech, and his challenge to Google.
0:06.9	All that and more coming up right after this.
0:09.6	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
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0:22.4	to strengthen your relationships, supercharge your creativity, boost your productivity, and more.
0:28.2	Follow the next big idea daily wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.5	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world
0:38.5	and beyond. Let's go deep today with the CEO of the one startup that's really changing
0:43.6	the way that we think about AI and how it can have a role in challenging incumbents, and not
0:48.6	surprisingly, it's coming in the world of search. We're joined today by Arvin Srinivas. He's the
0:53.6	CEO of Perplexity, and he's here to
0:56.2	talk to us all about his company and also the state of the industry. Arvin, welcome to the show.
1:01.1	Thank you for having me, you're Alex. Let me start with this. You have 10 million users,
1:05.1	last count. Your company is a search company. So instead of going to Google, you'd go to Perplexity,
1:10.4	you type your question in, you get go to perplexity, type your
1:10.8	question in, you get a paragraph or two in conversational AI with some links at the top telling
1:15.9	people where to go and it's really taking off. When I look around thinking about like what
1:20.5	other generative AI startups there are that have gained traction, it's not a very long list.
1:25.6	I mean, character AI is worth a billion dollars, but I don't hear anybody using that. But your company people use. You're ranked above Google Calendar on the App Store. I think you were number nine on the top charts last time I checked. Is this, what would you attribute this struggle for startups to take off in the generative AI space too?
1:45.0	And is my view of this kind of close-minded or am I hitting on something that's right here?
1:49.9	It's mostly accurate.
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