Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google

Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity, an AI search company. Listen to the full episode on Big Technology Podcast:

AI Summary:
Arvind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, discusses the challenges faced by g
enerative AI startups and the struggle for widespread adoption. He also shares insights into the cultural and bureaucratic challenges at Google and the limitations of their search model. Arvind explains the problem with search today and how Perplexity aims to provide a more efficient and personalized search experience. He discusses the potential impact of AI-powered search engines on the advertising and e-commerce industries. Arvind also touches on the advancements in AI and the competition between different models and companies. In this episode, Alex speaks with Aravind about the challenges and future of AI development. They discuss the importance of data, the ethical considerations in AI, and the potential impact of AI on society.

Chapters
00:00
Introduction
01:10
Challenges for Generative AI Startups
05:08
Challenges at Google
10:07
Recruiting from Google
12:46
The Problem with Search Today
15:01
Creating a New Segment of Searches
17:08
Replacing Google or Coexisting
20:12
Improving the Search Experience
23:05
Building with Less Data
27:08
News and Information Creators
30:05
Monetization and Advertising
36:30
Advancements in AI
39:28
Anthropic and Llama
10:00
The Challenges of AI Development
20:00
The Role of Data in AI
30:00
Ethical Considerations in AI
40:00
The Future of AI

[MelonHusk]

Came from X.
Great conversation Alex! Subscribed! Perplexity indeed is my default from last 3 months and as a budding ML Engineer I learned a lot from this podcast.

[sklux]

I happened to stumble on Perplexity and started using it over a month now. Experience has been refreshing and I am finding myself increasingly engauging with it for almost everything that has been crossing my mind. Most of the returns have been very good. Suggested further questions often lead to very similar answer with some additional insights. Overall quite impressed with the speed, refs, simplicity and the quality of the output & summary. Great time saver.
👍

[AITools-kdmk]

For a research, the Probing Questions feature of perplexity is very helpful.
sometimes I would get additional insight into the subject matter just by reading the questions that perplexity gives me

the People Also Ask feature of google is no longer that useful because its more for advertisement