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

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“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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@MRKDjarod 24 күн бұрын

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 KZfaq, 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.

@univera1111 20 күн бұрын

Nobody will really care if is not an Android app or iOS app.

@wilsonlai2970 20 күн бұрын

I worked in medical tech industry , perplexity saves me tons of time on trustable information search and so the efficiency.Those say it’s a wrapper definitely didnt see how it can used practically,somethings that is simple doesn’t mean it is useless

@MRKDjarod 20 күн бұрын

@@univera1111 i've had the iOS app for some time now.

@user-dc7rd5st9y 19 күн бұрын

exactly i mean even if they are using the same infrastructure, they are trying to build something out different models, the APIs, they want the customer experience to be more enhanced, different areas to be focused, easiest way out?yes i do that too and nothing's wrong with that, so let the invester invest in them.

@sriramananthakrishnan138 11 күн бұрын

I think the "hate" is more towards how easily Microsoft can disrupt it by simply charging perplexity more which would eat into their margins.

@Bearly_Blue 26 күн бұрын

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...

@alexanderbrown-dg3sy 24 күн бұрын

lol man I said the same thing about Devin AI. A lot of fake visionaries popping up, getting billion valuations. This is literally a prompt chain. This is a feature, not a product.

@sciencequake744 23 күн бұрын

That's not true, perplexity has a different model altogether, investors are not fools

@JiasenLiu 21 күн бұрын

Welcome to the 21st century of industrialization and specialization, in case you got thawed from a capsule.

@memtubeofficial3303 20 күн бұрын

I guess Jeff Bezos is not fool😂

@Bearly_Blue 20 күн бұрын

@@memtubeofficial3303 yes, we all saw how smart he was when he invested in Rivian... and then Amazon had to write it down as a complete loss.

@mxtthompson Күн бұрын

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! 💪

@curiousguy9884 24 күн бұрын

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

@JiasenLiu 21 күн бұрын

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.

@1a1me 22 күн бұрын

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.

@liothomasart 26 күн бұрын

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.

@PrabhatKumar-fn4vy 25 күн бұрын

I don't care i dont use of the two , i use Google

@powerHungryMOSFET 25 күн бұрын

for what puroposes you have used them?

@resoluation345 25 күн бұрын

Do you understand chatgpt and perplexity does not do the same thing

@MRKDjarod 24 күн бұрын

1) they’ve had that voice feature for a long while now. It’s great! But not new. 2) ChatGPT and perplexity are different businesses. Sure, use the voice feature, but if you ever want info not determined by tokenizing the internet and want cited information, you won’t get that from ChatGPT. I have subs to both, and use them in different ways.

@NumairMansur 23 күн бұрын

good choice!

@Arcticwhir 26 күн бұрын

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?

@RahulGupta-uk1gc 26 күн бұрын

Api access to current affairs without the fluff. Even the way headlines appear can give you a sense about the real facts.

@DynamicUnreal 15 күн бұрын

When Google started and dominated there were plenty of other search engines. Google just did it better. Perplexity will exist as long as it does A.I. search better than anyone else.

@Petrolhead11 26 күн бұрын

perplexity is really good

@web3global 23 күн бұрын

Truly incredible! 🚀

@user-zf3gj3ke4t 18 күн бұрын

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

@1a1me 4 күн бұрын

Well if a result is relevant to your prompt why not ? Plus even on Google search if your query matches the content provided on reddit wouldn't you visit that? And if you find that useful, guess what Google is gonna rank that reddit page up and show it to others.

@rockysage7760 24 күн бұрын

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

@joeysherrett 21 күн бұрын

ability to search the web

@Anuj-es3yr 19 күн бұрын

@@joeysherrett Chat-GPT can search the web.

@manonamission2000 19 күн бұрын

@@joeysherretttrivial 'moat'

@niranjanbhat9432 19 күн бұрын

Tell me you never used perplexity without telling me you never used it!

@hemantkarasala5767 13 күн бұрын

Better performance less censorship less Hallucinations

@NumairMansur 23 күн бұрын

Perplexity's days are numbered. They know it.

@joeysherrett 21 күн бұрын

once google implements AI search internationally, might be over for perplexity

@Tweeting_data 17 күн бұрын

@@joeysherrett google want to protect their business model perplexity does opposite to google model

@DynamicUnreal 15 күн бұрын

@@joeysherrettHave you seen Google’s A.I. search lately? It’s absolutely atrocious.

@dougscott188 14 күн бұрын

@@Tweeting_dataGoogle could take their interface and generate a page that still includes their ads.

@dougscott188 14 күн бұрын

Yeah they rely on others for the data. If you think of it as a browser of sorts it has some valuable but you right they have a window that will close.

@leollz9949 5 күн бұрын

This is so good

@JaySharma45353 14 күн бұрын

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

@alexg7730 14 күн бұрын

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

@karlbarg4627 17 күн бұрын

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

@BigDataLogin 25 күн бұрын

cool

@dougscott188 14 күн бұрын

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

@stephaniekerr 26 күн бұрын

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

@l.j.russell902 26 күн бұрын

That’s exactly what I thought . In accurate information at its finest

@princetripathi3141 24 күн бұрын

Perplexity doesn't source its responses just from Wikipedia

@EntropyInfo 20 күн бұрын

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

@mPajuhaan 21 күн бұрын

Products that are easily made receive a lot of media coverage.

@ai4kWebdesignEcommerce 24 күн бұрын

ChatGPT has information from Wikipedia.

@CoolTebza-eh7ig 14 күн бұрын

Lot of boundaries and limitations on AI

@NOName-nn3jv 21 күн бұрын

Really wikipedia?

@UMS9695 20 күн бұрын

Perplexity is the nextgen search engine.

@AkhilSharmaTech 19 күн бұрын

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

@niranjanbhat9432 19 күн бұрын

You just never used!

@AkhilSharmaTech 18 күн бұрын

@@niranjanbhat9432 have you used GPT-assistants or crew AI agents?

@niranjanbhat9432 16 күн бұрын

@@AkhilSharmaTech Perplexity is user friendly alternative to Google search. Chatgpt is for different purpose, mostly for API use cases. Now the chatgpt hype is decreased. Nobody search general things on Chatgpt except for programmers and some technical work. For normal search, Perplexity AI is better than gpt 4o even they use gpt 4o api. It is all about use cases

@EcomCarl 26 күн бұрын

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.🚀

@user-xh9uj1tf3l 18 күн бұрын

Is perplexity is using any API s?

@fibra-ox1tj 18 күн бұрын

Once google catches up unfortunately it’s over for Perplexity

@goldmundchen 25 күн бұрын

i like this guy, i hope he makes it

@ahmadhussain8760 23 күн бұрын

#Indians

@wonderboy855 14 күн бұрын

The founder look very nervous

@sanvirbipulpersad4603 21 күн бұрын

This guy is brilliant and knows his stuff.

@YxYzYx 26 күн бұрын

Sounds awful

@Shihab_sadik 16 күн бұрын

Will love to see perplexity succeed, but it probably gonna fail😢

@davidhubbardmd 25 күн бұрын

"reasoning engines"

@_suki_ 25 күн бұрын

Perplexity is really useful; especially the fact that it provides source links but just like any other ai-chat bots it’s not accurate in predicting the content of its response from the very sources it gather these information.

@ErenYeager36 22 күн бұрын

How Perplexity AI is relevant?? Chat gpt 4.o free, can access internet and is more intelligent than Chat gpt 3. Gemini is free ,advanced or atleast similar to chat gpt 3 and can access internet . Meta AI is free and is in the level of GPT 4 and it's free. So why should someone use Perplexity instead of these??

@gbaili 25 күн бұрын

Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia has been investing heavily on Artificial Intelligence

@MrJperk82 26 күн бұрын

Sounds horrible, Wikipedia is cancer, gpt has a long way to go. Gigo

@princetripathi3141 24 күн бұрын

It doesn't just source its information from Wikipedia

@123246265245 22 күн бұрын

No moat against google, this dude is cooked 😬

@shaihazher 25 күн бұрын

Perplexity is one of those hyped ai products that only managed to scam investors and pump up it's valuation. It did not do anything that chatgpt could not do. Poe on the other hand does provide good value.

@Cygx 25 күн бұрын

You don’t need to worry because only accredited investors can invest in private companies.

@gabbyebk1387 24 күн бұрын

@@Cygx it is only obvious that you have not used the app. Foe me, I can not think of anything useful in the net, that is as useful as perplexity in its domain at the moment from my own opinion. i dont even remember using google since i discovered the app. so maybe, you have not spent enough time to use it and observe its amazing potential.

@shaihazher 24 күн бұрын

@@Cygx ok Billionaire

@sciencequake744 23 күн бұрын

iPhone and Android are phones, they both does the same thing. Both are in the market

@stoicmanimproving 25 күн бұрын

Why do americans give this guy too much attention ? Google and Chatgbt have everything

@princetripathi3141 24 күн бұрын

What do you mean by this guy?

@princetripathi3141 23 күн бұрын

@@stoicmanimproving I don't know if you're aware, but alumni from Google, Microsoft, and some impressive individuals (like the man with glasses you mentioned) all attended the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a prestigious institution known for its talented graduates.

@jra3224 23 күн бұрын

Perplexity is nothing but an 'Android skin' of sorts for chatgpt

@saiyedparwez007 15 күн бұрын

Bhai Gutkha thook kar baat kar.!!

@_.paradox1018 26 күн бұрын

Damn boy just did us proud 🔥🔥🔥

@nipun2735 19 күн бұрын

He didnt answer the question about his stack, is that intentional or just avoiding cause its trade craft? The question is what is your stack, how will you maintain the moat -- the answer he gave was we def use some body else's model + something else we do and user doesnt care -- thats a non answer answer, and even after some pushing by the technical person. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZ59apmX2t_SaKM.html