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

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<p>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:<br /> &#8211; <b>Cloaked</b>: <a href="https://cloaked.com/lex">https://cloaked.com/lex</a> and use code LexPod to get 25% off<br /> &#8211; <b>ShipStation</b>: <a href="https://shipstation.com/lex">https://shipstation.com/lex</a> and use code LEX to get 60-day free trial<br /> &#8211; <b>NetSuite</b>: <a href="http://netsuite.com/lex">http://netsuite.com/lex</a> to get free product tour<br /> &#8211; <b>LMNT</b>: <a href="https://drinkLMNT.com/lex">https://drinkLMNT.com/lex</a> to get free sample pack<br /> &#8211; <b>Shopify</b>: <a href="https://shopify.com/lex">https://shopify.com/lex</a> to get $1 per month trial<br /> &#8211; <b>BetterHelp</b>: <a href="https://betterhelp.com/lex">https://betterhelp.com/lex</a> to get 10% off</p> <p>Transcript: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/aravind-srinivas-transcript">https://lexfridman.com/aravind-srinivas-transcript</a></p> <p><b>EPISODE LINKS:</b><br /> Aravind&#8217;s X: <a href="https://x.com/AravSrinivas">https://x.com/AravSrinivas</a><br /> Perplexity: <a href="https://perplexity.ai/">https://perplexity.ai/</a><br /> Perplexity&#8217;s X: <a href="https://x.com/perplexity_ai">https://x.com/perplexity_ai</a></p> <p><b>PODCAST INFO:</b><br /> Podcast website: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/podcast">https://lexfridman.com/podcast</a><br /> Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://apple.co/2lwqZIr">https://apple.co/2lwqZIr</a><br /> Spotify: <a href="https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8">https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8</a><br /> RSS: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/">https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/</a><br /> YouTube Full Episodes: <a href="https://youtube.com/lexfridman">https://youtube.com/lexfridman</a><br /> YouTube Clips: <a href="https://youtube.com/lexclips">https://youtube.com/lexclips</a></p> <p><b>SUPPORT &#38; CONNECT:</b><br /> &#8211; Check out the sponsors above, it&#8217;s the best way to support this podcast<br /> &#8211; Support on Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">https://twitter.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman">https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman</a><br /> &#8211; Medium: <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">https://medium.com/@lexfridman</a></p> <p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br /> Here&#8217;s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.<br /> (00:00) &#8211; Introduction<br /> (10:52) &#8211; How Perplexity works<br /> (18:48) &#8211; How Google works<br /> (41:16) &#8211; Larry Page and Sergey Brin<br /> (55:50) &#8211; Jeff Bezos<br /> (59:18) &#8211; Elon Musk<br /> (1:01:36) &#8211; Jensen Huang<br /> (1:04:53) &#8211; Mark Zuckerberg<br /> (1:06:21) &#8211; Yann LeCun<br /> (1:13:07) &#8211; Breakthroughs in AI<br /> (1:29:05) &#8211; Curiosity<br /> (1:35:22) &#8211; $1 trillion dollar question<br /> (1:50:13) &#8211; Perplexity origin story<br /> (2:05:25) &#8211; RAG<br /> (2:27:43) &#8211; 1 million H100 GPUs<br /> (2:30:15) &#8211; Advice for startups<br /> (2:42:52) &#8211; Future of search<br /> (3:00:29) &#8211; Future of AI</p>