Gunning for Google with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas

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(00:00:00) - Episode Preview
(00:01:12) - Introducing Aravind Srinivas and Perplexity AI
(00:05:05) - Perplexity's growth to millions of queries per day
(00:06:21) - Perplexity's retention and market share vs. ChatGPT
(00:08:32) - Improving reliability, speed, accuracy, and new features
(00:10:33) - Getting to daily usage from weekly usage
(00:13:21) - Aravind's favorite Perplexity use cases
(00:18:34) - Issues with lack of sufficient web coverage for hard queries
(00:18:38) - Sponsors: Netsuite | Omneky
(00:23:13) - Building their own search index and models for self-sufficiency
(00:26:29) - Using their own index vs real-time web queries
(00:28:43) - Integrating default search and Copilot companion experiences
(00:31:49) - Training their own models as the only viable long-term option
(00:36:56) - The web becoming more like an API accessed via AI assistants
(00:41:23) - Not trying to copy Google's business model
(00:44:36) - Spending more on compute than people to get scale efficiencies
(00:49:35) - Replacing all parts of the stack with their own proprietary versions
(00:53:59) - Shipping fast out of necessity in a competitive war zone
(00:58:00) - AI assistants becoming a significant part of human digital activity

The Cognitive Revolution is brought to you by the Turpentine Media network.
Producer: Vivian Meng
Executive Producers: Amelia Salyers, and Erik Torenberg
Editor: Graham Bessellieu

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[Cagrst]

Great talk as always! I still can’t believe these incredible conversations are getting single-digit thousands of views…

[XalphYT]

I really wish the team at Perplexity well. I am consistently impressed by the results I get from their AI.

[CrusadeVoyager]

Nice discussion, Perplexity AI is different, thanks for including audience question and involving us with Aravind. This strategy will grow ur channel ❤

[IlEagle.G]

Love it, guys. Please keep up these amazing chats, people will QUICKLY realize this podcast (along with Upstream and MoZ) is second to mone

[shyama]

Cheering for Perplexity to do more and more! Great interview.

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[brandonreed]

Microsoft probably should acquire them now that Google released their AI overviews.

[shawnvandever]

i use Perplexity AI everyday. Love it

[antoniobanderas]

"In search of truth" seems like a falsehood as perplexity omits information due to guidelines regularly. Aravind should look in to being genuine and unbiased, but I guess that will not happen given the search engines going down the path they are. Censor, censor, censor, because I know better.