#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answers to questions on the Internet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Cloaked : https://cloaked.com/lex and use code LexPod to get 25% off – ShipStation : https://shipstation.com/lex and use code LEX to get 60-day free trial – NetSuite : http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour – LMNT : https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack – Shopify : https://shopify.com/lex to get $1 per month trial – BetterHelp : https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/aravind-srinivas-transcript EPISODE LINKS: Aravind’s X: https://x.com/AravSrinivas Perplexity: https://perplexity.ai/ Perplexity’s X: https://x.com/perplexity_ai PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast – Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman – Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman – Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) – Introduction (10:52) – How Perplexity works (18:48) – How Google works (41:16) – Larry Page and Sergey Brin (55:50) – Jeff Bezos (59:18) – Elon Musk (1:01:36) – Jensen Huang (1:04:53) – Mark Zuckerberg (1:06:21) – Yann LeCun (1:13:07) – Breakthroughs in AI (1:29:05) – Curiosity (1:35:22) – $1 trillion dollar question (1:50:13) – Perplexity origin story (2:05:25) – RAG (2:27:43) – 1 million H100 GPUs (2:30:15) – Advice for startups (2:42:52) – Future of search (3:00:29) – Future of AI