Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434

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-sriniv... 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/ Full episodes playlist: • Lex Fridman Podcast Clips playlist: • Lex Fridman Podcast Clips OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:53 - How Perplexity works 9:50 - How Google works 32:17 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin 46:52 - Jeff Bezos 50:20 - Elon Musk 52:38 - Jensen Huang 55:55 - Mark Zuckerberg 57:23 - Yann LeCun 1:04:09 - Breakthroughs in AI 1:20:07 - Curiosity 1:26:24 - $1 trillion dollar question 1:41:14 - Perplexity origin story 1:56:27 - RAG 2:18:45 - 1 million H100 GPUs 2:21:17 - Advice for startups 2:33:54 - Future of search 2:51:31 - Future of AI SOCIAL: Twitter: / lexfridman LinkedIn: / lexfridman Facebook: / lexfridman Instagram: / lexfridman Medium: / lexfridman Reddit: / lexfridman Support on Patreon: / lexfridman