The Aravind Srinivas Interview: How Perplexity.ai Is Disrupting The Future Of Search

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Show Notes:
(00:00) Aravind’s beginnings from India to Berkley and Silicon Valley
(05:28) Entering OpenAI humbled Aravind and motivated him to pursue entrepreneurship.
(07:34) Pitching a bold idea for disrupting Google search.
(11:10) New search experiences utilizing large language models.
(15:23) Deep research brings clients seeking answers, not products.
(16:50) Transitioning the world’s search results from links to answers
(19:17) Value sharing model needed for AI companies.
(22:11) Incentive for profits, expecting technological advancements.
(25:31) Encouraging open source for mutual benefit.

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• the Pirates of Silicon Valley (Movie)
• Google Deep Mind
• Silicon Valley (TV Series)
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[TuanNguyenHealthGenie]

First, GREAT show. Second, Aravind - as of today - seems like just a genuinely down-to-earth leader.

[carolinerowe]

Thanks for a great interview, so informative. I’m looking forward to learning more on the his channel.

[drkeithnewton]

I'm going to challenge him on the Spotify model working. The model works for Spotify in terms of sharing revenue. In terms of the artist whose music are placed on the platform, there is very little, if any, means of remuneration. So while I love the perplexity CEOs idea, it only is going to be as meaningful as he hopes if he Embraces a more meaningful Revenue share than Spotify currently does with its artists.

[TheRemarkableN]

I’m liking the 80s aesthetic. I’m guessing that’s intentional. Excellent interview as well. You guys are off to a great start!

[carlosalbarracin]

I love your channel, and I plan to be a long term listener of this podcast. Only one suggestion: sometimes, during the interviews, people tend to name books or people or even movies, which most of the time are very interesting, adding the covers or a picture of the person with their name and title really enhances the experience of waching the interview. You can see how other podcast like Lex Firedman always does it. Thank you for your work and congratulations on the podcast!

[High-Tech-Geek]

19:47 I LOVE Aravind's suggestion to have the search engine SHARE THE AD REVENUE with the content creators they are surfacing (like Spotify)! Brilliant!

[stavroskyriakidis]

Like the format a lot, very interesting! Would be even better if it would be a bit longer. Would love to see episodes of a length of ~ 1h or even longer!

[futurepedia_io]

Great first episode, congrats! My main feedback would be that personally, I'd prefer these to be at least an hour long

[EllenVaman]

Congrats Matt … looking forward to see many more episodes 👏🏻🎉

[volkerblees]

Great Kick-off episode 👍 The argument that there is no added value from chatbots without content creation should be brought to the attention of the industry

[thedorbrothers]

Hey guys! Awesome talk 💯

We would love to come around and talk to you a bit on a future episode!

[teawa_]

What an episode! Always great to get a deep dive into the inner minds of these devs

[sbtopjosh]

Perplexity is alright...but the answers are limited and sometimes its just not very good

[Appleloucious]

One Love!

Always forward, never ever backward!!

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[adrielomalley]

Great podcast! Subscribed! I am doing a master's in AI. Interested in conducting research in the field. Any recommendations? 4:59

[sirhammon]

I want to write a poem, or post a famous poem, and then type a prompt like "Focus on the sentence length and alliteration, and make it about a dog." and then the Search finds the closest matches. Even if it's some kid in a basement who made it and stuck it on the stupidest site. Then let me upload a Metalica song, an Image, a movie. I want to get all the diamonds from the pile of coal, not because they are placed perfectly on the top. "Here is my idea for a cure for cancer, please find any similar theories focusing on this Telomere control system." 1000 overlooked ideas. Take the best 5 and do a search based on those and refine the prompt.

[JanardhanaPadavala]

Good episode and good start. Congratulations! Aravind's is great and inspiring story. But in the end what did the episode achieve in alignment with your purpose? Last few minutes of bringing it all together with message from the guest and the hosts could have been better.

[anindividual]

Content creators won’t create quality content for pennies. It’s a lot of work. AI relies on the content. So it’s not a sustainable model. Attribution or paying fractions of pennies like Spotify won’t work

[Slaci-vlio]

For some reason as a Hungarian I'm having hard time to understand the way this guest speaks English. But I took the transcript and the Edge browser can read it for me.

[ben_clifford]

18:37 I've been saying this for years now. There is no conceptual difference between a machine training on public data and a human consuming that data in order to learn. People get their panties in a twist over semantics, but the heart of the issue is pretty simple.