‘It’s Like ChatGPT And Wikipedia Had A Baby’: Perplexity AI’s CEO On Building Personalized Search

“It’s like ChatGPT and Wikipedia have a baby”, said Aravind Srinivas, CEO and cofounder of Perplexity, said of his search engine at Imagination In Action’s ‘Forging the Future of Business with AI’ Summit in April 2024. On this panel, Srinivas talks about building a better search, the future of AI for enterprises, and why getting a PHD and starting a business are similar.

0:00 Introduction
3:41 What Is Perplexity?
7:04 The Uniqueness Of Targeted AI And How It Can Affect The Future
11:19 How Did Aravind Srinivas Get Started In AI
19:59 Where New Devices Are Taking AI And VR
21:58 Other AI Startups To Be On The Lookout For

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[mxtthompson]

High quality answers without advertising spam; Super low latency; Easy to follow up referencing underlining the summarisation; Very low hallucinations.

This guy is super intelligent, super insightful, and as long as he doesn’t get corrupted chasing easily available high advertising margins, it’s a long term moat! 💪

[MRKDjarod]

So many people in these comments have no idea what perplexity is or does. He’s aware it’s a wrapper. But he also says hey, it’s really hard to make a good wrapper. And they did honestly. It’s a great product I use for research all the time. The fact you can focus down to academic, or YouTube, or wolfram alpha, or even Reddit, is awesome. Citations are awesome to follow to get more. I’ve used it a bunch, I really like it. They don’t have to invest billions into an underlying model. It’s a good business, good product, and I like this guy. Not sure why all the hate.

[ame]

I hope Perplexity makes it. I really like the idea of just asking questions and getting answers instead of hoping on multiple sites. If required I'll click on the citation to read it further. No time to waste.
Another thing that i like about it when you are pursuing a topic and you went deep into the conversation, all of your thread is saved as a single history rather than multiple page history as we see in traditional search engines.

[Bearly_Blue]

Perplexity is another example of the AI bubble and exuberance. How many employees perplexity has? about 50. They use Microsoft and OpenAI infrastructure and they optimize ChatGPT to make their "AI" work. So once Microsoft or OpenAI decide to shut down Perplexity's access to their infrastructure Perplexity is practically over. Perplexity hasn't created anything and they don't even have own cloud or server infrastructure, but yes it's the future bro...

[curiousguy]

As much I would like to see startups succeed, Perplexity is not bringing anything game-changing to the table.

[JiasenLiu]

Despite his sleepy eyes, he's so honest and to the point, unlike any other CEOs I've seen. Probably that's why his answer engine is so good.

[liothomasart]

Chatgpt4o blew Perplexity out of the water. This voice thing is simply mind blowing. I cancelled my perplexity subscription and reactivated my ChatGPT sub in a hurry.

[Arcticwhir]

i just dont understand perplexity's niche, google is putting more and more AI into their searches, bing has copilot, even openai is looking to do search. Apple will start using openai for siri replacement. Curious any perplexity users, whats your use case, that cant be done with copilot?

[rockysage]

I don't understand why I would choose Perplexity AI over ChatGPT. When they're using chatGPT themselves

[zfgjket]

Perplexity cites Reddit as sources. How on earth are they raising money

[NumairMansur]

Perplexity's days are numbered. They know it.

[alexg]

Love how he speaks fast. Hope he stays the same. This guy is going places

[karlbarg]

I started with chatgpt and followed by perplexity and now I don't even know chatgpt exist. Perplexity is really good with less hallucinations.

[EntropyInfo]

can Perplexity AI or Chatgpt solve a IIT JEE question of Olympiad Question ?

[JaySharma]

Im using perp for so long man! it helped me so much but it needs much improvement too

[dougscott]

Seems like Google or Apple should just but this wrapper as they seem to have a nice interface for search.

[stephaniekerr]

It’s like chatgp and Wikipedia have a baby??? What could go wrong???

[AkhilSharmaTech]

Chapt gpt O is such a great model. With assistant, it does way more than perplexity. Dont lnow why people use perplexity

[EcomCarl]

It's truly inspiring to see how effectively blending language models with search indexes can revolutionize access to information, making it both personalized and precise.🚀

[aikWebdesignEcommerce]

ChatGPT has information from Wikipedia.