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Aravind Srinivas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1873 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

I think so.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

I think so.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

I think fundamentally giving users a choice and setting it up as a win-win for both the business and the user is where the world should head to.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

I think fundamentally giving users a choice and setting it up as a win-win for both the business and the user is where the world should head to.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

And I would say the same thing applies to any website in the world.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

And I would say the same thing applies to any website in the world.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

If you want an AI to use it on your behalf, it should be okay for it because that's what the user wants.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

If you want an AI to use it on your behalf, it should be okay for it because that's what the user wants.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Perplexity is best described as an answer engine. So you ask it a question, you get an answer. except the difference is all the answers are backed by sources. This is like how an academic writes a paper. Now, that referencing part, the sourcing part, is where the search engine part comes in. So you combine traditional search, extract results relevant to the query the user asked,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Perplexity is best described as an answer engine. So you ask it a question, you get an answer. except the difference is all the answers are backed by sources. This is like how an academic writes a paper. Now, that referencing part, the sourcing part, is where the search engine part comes in. So you combine traditional search, extract results relevant to the query the user asked,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Perplexity is best described as an answer engine. So you ask it a question, you get an answer. except the difference is all the answers are backed by sources. This is like how an academic writes a paper. Now, that referencing part, the sourcing part, is where the search engine part comes in. So you combine traditional search, extract results relevant to the query the user asked,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

You read those links, extract the relevant paragraphs, feed it into an LLM. LLM means large language model. And that LLM takes the relevant paragraphs, looks at the query, and comes up with a well formatted answer with appropriate footnotes to every sentence it says. because it's been instructed to do so.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

You read those links, extract the relevant paragraphs, feed it into an LLM. LLM means large language model. And that LLM takes the relevant paragraphs, looks at the query, and comes up with a well formatted answer with appropriate footnotes to every sentence it says. because it's been instructed to do so.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

You read those links, extract the relevant paragraphs, feed it into an LLM. LLM means large language model. And that LLM takes the relevant paragraphs, looks at the query, and comes up with a well formatted answer with appropriate footnotes to every sentence it says. because it's been instructed to do so.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

It's been instructed that one particular instruction of given a bunch of links and paragraphs, write a concise answer for the user with the appropriate citation. So the magic is all of this working together in one single orchestrated product. And that's what we built Perplexity for.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

It's been instructed that one particular instruction of given a bunch of links and paragraphs, write a concise answer for the user with the appropriate citation. So the magic is all of this working together in one single orchestrated product. And that's what we built Perplexity for.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

It's been instructed that one particular instruction of given a bunch of links and paragraphs, write a concise answer for the user with the appropriate citation. So the magic is all of this working together in one single orchestrated product. And that's what we built Perplexity for.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Correct. When I wrote my first paper, the senior people who were working with me on the paper told me this one profound thing. which is that every sentence you write in a paper should be backed with a citation, with a citation from another peer reviewed paper or an experimental result in your own paper. Anything else that you say in the paper is more like an opinion.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Correct. When I wrote my first paper, the senior people who were working with me on the paper told me this one profound thing. which is that every sentence you write in a paper should be backed with a citation, with a citation from another peer reviewed paper or an experimental result in your own paper. Anything else that you say in the paper is more like an opinion.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#434 โ€“ Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Correct. When I wrote my first paper, the senior people who were working with me on the paper told me this one profound thing. which is that every sentence you write in a paper should be backed with a citation, with a citation from another peer reviewed paper or an experimental result in your own paper. Anything else that you say in the paper is more like an opinion.