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Aravind Srinivas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1873 total appearances

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

You can keep answering harder and harder queries, but there's still a lot of work to do on the product layer in terms of how the information is best presented to the user and how you think backwards from what the user really wanted and might want as a next step and give it to them before they even ask for it.

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

You can keep answering harder and harder queries, but there's still a lot of work to do on the product layer in terms of how the information is best presented to the user and how you think backwards from what the user really wanted and might want as a next step and give it to them before they even ask for it.

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

You can keep answering harder and harder queries, but there's still a lot of work to do on the product layer in terms of how the information is best presented to the user and how you think backwards from what the user really wanted and might want as a next step and give it to them before they even ask for it.

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

Yeah, exactly. But you would like the product. When you ask for weather, let's say it localizes you to Austin automatically and not just tell you it's hot, not just tell you it's humid, but also tells you what to wear. You wouldn't ask for what to wear, but it would be amazing if the product came and told you what to wear.

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

Yeah, exactly. But you would like the product. When you ask for weather, let's say it localizes you to Austin automatically and not just tell you it's hot, not just tell you it's humid, but also tells you what to wear. You wouldn't ask for what to wear, but it would be amazing if the product came and told you what to wear.

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

Yeah, exactly. But you would like the product. When you ask for weather, let's say it localizes you to Austin automatically and not just tell you it's hot, not just tell you it's humid, but also tells you what to wear. You wouldn't ask for what to wear, but it would be amazing if the product came and told you what to wear.

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

I mean, but personalization, there's an 80-20 here. The 80-20 is achieved with your location, let's say your gender, and then you know, like sites you typically go to, like a rough sense of topics of what you're interested in, all that can already give you a great personalized experience.

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

I mean, but personalization, there's an 80-20 here. The 80-20 is achieved with your location, let's say your gender, and then you know, like sites you typically go to, like a rough sense of topics of what you're interested in, all that can already give you a great personalized experience.

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

I mean, but personalization, there's an 80-20 here. The 80-20 is achieved with your location, let's say your gender, and then you know, like sites you typically go to, like a rough sense of topics of what you're interested in, all that can already give you a great personalized experience.

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

It doesn't have to have infinite memory, infinite context windows, have access to every single activity you've done. That's an overkill. Yeah, yeah.

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

It doesn't have to have infinite memory, infinite context windows, have access to every single activity you've done. That's an overkill. Yeah, yeah.

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

It doesn't have to have infinite memory, infinite context windows, have access to every single activity you've done. That's an overkill. Yeah, yeah.

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

It's like first few principle vectors. Like most important eigenvectors. Yes.

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

It's like first few principle vectors. Like most important eigenvectors. Yes.

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

It's like first few principle vectors. Like most important eigenvectors. Yes.

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

But it also depends on when you run. If you're asking in the night, maybe you're not looking for running, but... Right.

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

But it also depends on when you run. If you're asking in the night, maybe you're not looking for running, but... Right.

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

But it also depends on when you run. If you're asking in the night, maybe you're not looking for running, but... Right.

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

So we do not have to beat them, neither do we have to take them on. In fact, I feel the primary difference of Perplexity from other startups that have explicitly laid out that they're taking on Google is that we never even try to play Google at their own game.

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

So we do not have to beat them, neither do we have to take them on. In fact, I feel the primary difference of Perplexity from other startups that have explicitly laid out that they're taking on Google is that we never even try to play Google at their own game.